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The original games were created with the constraints of televisions of the time meaning they had a completely different creative approach to color, effects, and shapes. One of the ways this aspect has been debated is in the gap between CRT filtering pixel art and LCDs. Yet there still remains a desire to understand what the culture surrounding these games once was and to at least preserve that understanding. What it meant to create a videogame, purchase a videogame, have spare time to play videogames, and comprehend videogames can never be the same between two points in time. Actually experiencing these games as they once were is impossible though, as we don’t live in the cultural and material conditions when these games were released. There is a desire to not only preserve the original form of the media, but preserve the feelings that the original form incited as well.
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This is similar to a desire to listen to music on a record or cassette or see a movie on 35 mm film. When everyone debates about the best version of a game, what does it mean to be looking for the most “authentic” version? The first approach would be to desire to play games in the original form they released. Final Fantasy’s place in culture isn’t fixed to the most recent version of Final Fantasy, but as an essence that emerges between each version. Rather, they exist in constant states of flux. They aren’t a single remaster, coming back years after fans have tirelessly done the work to maintain ways to play their game. Yet with games that have been out for as long as the original Final Fantasy titles, they exist in the unique position of being remastered, reported, and remade for the everstretching future of hardware to come. With any remake there are always a number of elements that are changed between titles.
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It has become the software of Theseus if you remake a game so many times, does the original game still remain? Yet as the Pixel Remaster makes the 15th iteration of the title over 34 years it brings to question how much has changed and how much has stayed the same.
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In each of these remasters, adjustments big and small were made to align the original game’s values with the contemporary state of the franchise and to update the games for modern technology.
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Later, it would be remastered for the Wonderswan in 2000, then for the Playstation in 2002, the Gameboy Advance in 2004, the Playstation Portable in 2007, and countless others until the most recent Pixel Remasters on PC and mobile phones. The Game Boy Advance line was succeeded by the Nintendo DS line in 2004.The first Final Fantasy was released in 1987 as an early contributor to the budding JRPG genre of the time. With the add-on, all Game Boy games could be played through the GameCube. Within the lifetime of the Game Boy Advance, an optional attachment was made for the Nintendo GameCube called the Game Boy Player, which consisted of a Game Boy hardware deck and a GameCube program disc. It did not sell well as it was overshadowed by its successor, the DS (which also played GBA games). This variant had interchangeable faceplates in an array of colors and custom designs, but dropped the earlier models' backward compatibility to achieve its size and could only play GBA games. In 2005, Nintendo issued a second GBA redesign in an ultracompact form factor, the Game Boy Micro, the last model in the Game Boy line. At its launch, Nintendo claimed the SP's battery life as being 10 hours with the backlight on, or 18 with it off. The GBA SP was also Nintendo's first handheld with an integrated rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack, replacing the alkaline batteries used in prior Game Boy models. In 2005, the AGS-101 model of the SP featured a backlit screen, the first such feature for a Nintendo handheld in worldwide release. In 2003, a redesigned version was released under the name Game Boy Advance SP ( Special ) The SP was designed to fold and when collapsed, it was roughly half the size of the original Game Boy Advance. GBA units used shorter cartridges with more capacity than either the Game Boy or Game Boy Color, but most hardware designs were compatible with both prior units. The original Game Boy Advance was released in 2001 as a 32-bit handheld belonging to the sixth-generation era. The Game Boy Advance family of video game systems (abbreviated as GBA) was a line of handheld systems manufactured by Nintendo, and the descendant of the original Game Boy line.