Back in 2009, I was lurking around here and encountered a thread where someone mentioned that they had made an uncensorship patch for Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation. The patch would restore all the dialogue and graphics that were censored in the US release.

Unfortunately, this individual was apprehensive about releasing their patch because they believed that no one here would want to play it.

To compound the problem, this place crashed sometime later. When it went back online, it was restored to an earlier back-up before that thread was even made.

So now I can't even remember this individual's name since the thread was wiped from existence.

Anybody here know how I can contact this guy?

For whatever it’s worth, this pretty much does that, but not on the PSX. (And if you look at the number of people credited, I think it goes to show how much effort wide-sweeping changes to a game the size of FF7 takes.)

I find the idea of FFVII needing an "uncensorship" patch inherently hilarious, considering that Squaresoft's idea of translating Barret and Cid's dialogue was to turn every other thing out of their mouths into a four-letter word.

It needs a retranslation, pure and simple. And I don't mean like an FFVI/CT "retranslation", I mean something that'll make its dialogue and terminology more consistent with later releases.

This 1000X.  Occasionally There were still words that would Appear as "$!@#*&", but it didn't matter, you all knew what the word was.


I'm gonna give this the old college try. I hadn't even thought of that. Thank you!