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Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster Recreates Classic and Excludes War of the Lions Content

Developers reconstructed missing source data by analyzing existing builds with brute-force coding, delivering both the PS1 original alongside an enhanced modern edition.

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Overview

  • Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles will launch on September 30, 2025 on modern consoles, marking the first official availability of the PS1 game on current hardware.
  • The compilation includes the unaltered PS1 version with its updated 2007 PSP translation alongside a fully remastered edition.
  • The enhanced version features high-definition graphics, newly recorded voice acting, a re-edited script and quality-of-life tools such as fast-forward and save-anywhere plus three new difficulty modes to rebalance gameplay.
  • Director Kazutoyo Maehiro led the effort to rebuild missing source code and master data through exhaustive analysis of existing versions and manual reconstruction.
  • The development team intentionally excluded all War of the Lions content to preserve the original game’s design integrity and narrative.