Final Fantasy VIII: News September '98

September 30th - Move complete! 

The move to consolenation.com has finally taken place, after a few technical difficulties, but many thanks to Tom for offereing me a place at psxex.com (and unlimited space :)) and visit him at http://www.consolenation.com/
Of course the move has come with a few changes:
  • New Screenshots section - 100's of screenshots and latest ones added every other day!
  • New Downloads section - Making full use of the unlimited space ;) download a fine choice of movies
  • New Message Board; post a message now!
  • And loads more coming!
I intend to make Final Fantasy 7 and 8: Worlds apart, the best Final Fantasy website on the net. Goddammit. Please give me loads of support as I add and change things at my new home, and also if you would like a posistion at FF: WA, then please mail me (mainly for news).


September 20th - Final Fantasy 8 to utilise PDA


Final Fantasy 8 was today announced by Square to be compatable with Sony's up and coming PDA. Quite how it will work with FF8 will be interesting to say the least... come to thing of things, I really cannnot think how it can be incorporated into a Final Fantasy game. Oh well, more news as it comes.

The Sony PDA The Sony PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) is the latest innovation for the Playstation. It appears to be a cross between a GameBoy and some sort of enhancement of a standard Playstation memory card. The device will interface with the Playstation via a standard memory card slot.

Specs:

  • 32 bit RISC Processor
  • 2K of SRAM
  • 128K of Flash RAM
  • 32x32 dot monochrome
  • Piezoelectric speaker (4 bit PCM)
  • 5 Input buttons, 1 reset button.
  • Bi-directional infra red communication
  • LED Calendar

  • September 15th - A New Villain


    Well, just as things were becoming too quiet, news has surfaced of a new Villain for Final Fantasy 8! This Young, quite strange looking woman to be frank, is a witch that goes by the name of Ma Jyo Idea; I can reveal that "Evil Lady" is not a part of her name (as other websites think), "Evil Lady" should be witch; 'Majo' is Witch in Japanese, so she is the Witch Idea. Well, it makes a change from Sephiroth... Lets just hope that a new name is used for the American release :) Thanks to KaiserBlue for the info.

    A scan from a Japanese Gaming Magazine, shows her walking along side Seifer Almasy which is quite interesting, and could add a twist to the plot... or something. She seems to be faily popular amongst the people as she strolls along inside a float, in the "Witches Parade". Rumors even suggest that she is somehow controled by someone else! Blimey.

    September 10th - New Screenshots added



    A few new screenshots have been added again, to the Screenshots Section. They include pictures of the Jungle, perhaps even from Laguna's world...

    September 3rd - New Garden Screenshots



    Just found some screenshots of inside Garden, tak a look at them here. Not much to say on them except Rinoa and Squall are prominent in most of the screenies... They seem to have an argument, although that's probably me...

    September 1st - New, official, Trailer movie added 



    An official trailer has been released by Square, obviously to promote Final Fantasy 8 to the press and people like ourselves... be warned though, it's 6MB and you need Apple's Quicktime.

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