YES! YES! YES! FFIV Advanced Site Updated with new screenshots

[Cain Highwind]

The Official Site is here:
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ff4a/

Jeux France has all the screens posted.

The portraits are DEFINETLY redone. Just look at Cain's.

Oh and from RPGamer:

Similar to Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls, Final Fantasy IV Advance will feature a new bonus dungeon unique to the GBA version. The other big addition is the ability to pick a battle party for the game's final dungeon. Veterans of Final Fantasy IV will likely recall the assemblage of characters in the game's final chapter, but in Final Fantasy IV Advance, players will be able to make use of them. The site shows off this change with a screenshot of Cid and Edward in the final party.

EDIT: Oh and under the character select on the official site. Are those SD renders of the characters new? I sure haven't seem them before.

EDIT2: It seems like they've redone a couple of the battle backgrounds, but mostly reused the ones from FFI+II. Not necessarily a bad thing, but kinda lazy.

[Chu Chulain]

looks so awesome i want it too!

[Dawezy]

I almost creamed myself when I saw the thread XD

Yeah, those smaller rendered characters were actually drawn quite a long time ago in some strategy guides released over in Japan. I'll attach one of Cecil / Kain to give an idea.. damn well done otherwise. The backgrounds for the battles look like they are directly ripped from the WSC FF4 actually.. Its hard to tell from the budget quality of the screenshots on the site and from Jeux.

Lookin forward to this one, yep.

Even though I will more then likely have to resort to ROM >.> dont have a GBA'n stuff.



And Chu, dont spam or I'll slap you.

[Chu Chulain]

Well shouldn't there be a bulletin board then instead of having single post threads for announcements/links for subject....

--------Dawezy EDIT: Its the way we works, respective announcements for the game in question belong in the forum for the game. The announcements forum is for Site and Forum announcements, not FF titles.
--------Chu EDIT: gotcha

Originally Posted by Dawezy

And Chu, dont spam or I'll slap you.

May your aim be true

[Ted Zanarukando]

The GBA version of Final Fantasy IV will be based on the WSC version, but it will have better graphics. The battle background graphics are being enhanced due to the resolution differences between the SNES and GBA. Final Fantasy VI would be the only SNES Final Fantasy to have a GBA version that is on par with the original version. The downside is that the soundtrack will be degraded, which I may not like. The soundtrack is most hurt in the transfer to GBA.

[ZRO]

Heh, I'm not so sure, looks like it all got a bit warped a little in the transfer. And allowing for switching out the party in the final dungeon? I sincerely hope that's one of those "After you beat it only" deals. Cuz up to that point it's all storyline. At the point you go to the final dungeon, everyone else is currently sick/dead/stoned/boomed and incapacitated. Then again, somehow when you get to the end they're all better and at the tower, so ehhh. Yeah. <.<

[2ndPower]

Aye, the character turnover in that game was extremely intense. I'd prefer to have a bit more of a choice, such as in most other RPGs, of the party in most areas of the game, but oh well. Hopefully they can streamline things a bit with this one, in the SNES version, the story was kind of choppy.

Looking forward to it, they just need to be careful not to screw certain things up.