"When getting to work on the remake, Maehiro and his team discovered they had to rebuild the source code from the ground up since it was lost thanks to the industry's unstandardized practices in the '90s, according to Bloomberg. When translating Final Fantasy Tactics from Japanese to English for the global release, the company would overwrite the original Japanese version's code."
"For Maehiro, that meant the team had to undertake a ground-up overhaul and recreate the source code by playing the original game that released in 1997, consulting the game's master disc and looking at the 2011 version called Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, according to Bloomberg. Maehiro also said during a PAX West 2025 panel that the team gleaned a lot of lost info from fan-made databases."
Square Enix rebuilt Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles by recreating the game's source code from scratch because the original code was lost due to unstandardized practices in the 1990s. The Japanese-to-English translation process historically overwrote original code, forcing a ground-up reconstruction. The development recreated game logic by playing the 1997 original, consulting the master disc, and referencing the 2011 Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions release. Fan-made databases supplied additional missing information. The remake preserves original character strengths, keeping Count Cidolfus Orlandeau's overpowering abilities to reflect his narrative role, with release scheduled at month-end.
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