Is there any way to speed up the transitions from field to battles?

[Hawk]

I never played this on PSX and was giving it a go the other night but the ten+ second transitions from the field/overworld to the battle screen is a real pacing killer. I get why it would take so long on PSX hardware but there shouldn't be any reason for it to take so long on a modern PC.

[Zunnoab #931]

I'm pretty sure there's an option for this. The transitions were terrible in the original. It should be in the menus somewhere.

If they are still too slow for you with the sped up intro option, just know it was even worse in the original. For the entire intro part of the music the camera panned around. Every. Single. Battle.

[Hawk]

Originally posted by Zunnoab #931:

I'm pretty sure there's an option for this. The transitions were terrible in the original. It should be in the menus somewhere.

If they are still too slow for you with the sped up intro option, just know it was even worse in the original. For the entire intro part of the music the camera panned around. Every. Single. Battle.

There's an option to skip the battle intros, but I'm specifically talking about the black screen between the random encounter to the battle start. Atleast in my case it's a solid ten seconds (at least) of black screen with music playing before the battle scene starts, then it does the whole panning around thing.

[Zunnoab #931]

Oh that's weird. Ten seconds is not usual. Is it an antivirus program? How old is the machine? I wish I knew how to help. If you're running from a SSD or something and it's still that slow it makes even less sense (not that it should take that long anyway).

[Hawk]

Originally posted by Zunnoab #931:

Oh that's weird. Ten seconds is not usual. Is it an antivirus program? How old is the machine? I wish I knew how to help. If you're running from a SSD or something and it's still that slow it makes even less sense (not that it should take that long anyway).

It's an older laptop but it really shouldn't be struggling with FF 9 at all.

Here's what I mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvBc8DmTk0

The Random battle starts at :25 and it finishes the black screen at :32. It feels longer then that for me, but regardless, I'd want to cut that in half atleast.

[Radiant]

There's a mod called Memoria, it's easy to install and you can change a lot like increase frames in battle, wide screen, save any time. It's a must have for all people who play the PC version

[Hawk]

Originally posted by RadiantHero6:

There's a mod called Memoria, it's easy to install and you can change a lot like increase frames in battle, wide screen, save any time. It's a must have for all people who play the PC version

Thanks for this. While the transitions are still too long everything else feels much better. Makes the entire game more bearable even if I've ran into a few bugs.

[Radiant]

I put battle FPS to 20, it's not too fast (speed = logic) or too slow, wide screen is good too

[Serafie1999AD]

Originally posted by Hawk:

Thanks for this. While the transitions are still too long everything else feels much better. Makes the entire game more bearable even if I've ran into a few bugs.

If you've already installed Memoria, browse to your main game directory and open Memoria.ini with a text editor. In the [Graphics] section, change BattleSwirlFrames to something lower. In addition, you can open up the Config menu in the game, and set Skip Battle Camera to On.