Final Fantasy XI PS2 restoration via Insignia (Early Alpha Footage)
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A test session showing the original PlayStation 2 version of Final Fantasy XI connecting through Insignia’s custom PlayOnline infrastructure and successfully...

This is really cool. If in the future this is released and you’re able to connect via pcsx2 I might have to give it a whirl.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    10·
    22 days ago

    The PS2 FFXI client was reconstructed from files found across several PlayStation 2 HDD dumps and packaged into an update so that PlayOnline could download it from our replacement patch server.

    Insanely cool

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    22 days ago

    I remember liking ffxi but also hating it. The way notorious monsters worked you’d spend hours camping some shit for a drop competing with dozens of literal bots for it but at the same time it contributed to a sense of rarity and accomplishment for finally getting the thing. And i both loved and hated that you basically couldn’t play the game without a group after level 10. Like, I enjoyed the time spent socializing, but it’s also something you look at in retrospect and it’s like wow i had to spend 2 hours killing crabs with these people to get three levels

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      22 days ago

      Same with the grind kmmos like Ragnarok. I still load up Ragnarok every now and then, almost nothing scratches the itch to just grind for some 0.0001% rare drop or hunt MVPs that only spawn once every 4 hours for the hope of getting last hit.

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        22 days ago

        RO was so good, fuck, the only reason i ever stopped playing the og western version was my dad’s computer died while playing it and he blamed the game and wouldn’t let me install it again

        but it was super fucking grindy i don’t think i could play it today without private server xp rates

        • lamassu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          4·
          22 days ago

          I used to host a custom RO server like 20 years ago… Omg! I think I originally discovered the game from an IRC conversation. That game was crack for me.

    • WokePalpatine [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      22 days ago

      There’s been some work getting EverQuest Online Adventures and the Norrath Diablo-likes (I think that’s what genre they are) working on PS2 too. I think .Hack Fragment online portion is working too. Been thinking about trying to MMO online. If this got released it’d probably bush me over the edge and do it.