After Final Fantasy Tactics' source code was lost, the remaster's devs looked at fan-made websites' preservation efforts: "We know you guys do such a good job of keeping all of that up to date"

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The code was lost when "we wanted to do another language, we would keep just stacking on top and overwriting and overwriting."

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles screenshot.
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The director of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles says the remaster was made possible by fans who had preserved data from the original game.

After years of speculation, the remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics was finally announced this summer, with the release date rapidly approaching. However, Square Enix had lost the source code for a number of its games (which is speculated to be the reason the Final Fantasy 8 remaster came out so long after the rest), and Final Fantasy Tactics was one of them. And while the game was remade previously with the release of The War of the Lions, the team specifically wanted to revisit the original version.

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