FFCCEOT-Recomp
A native PC port of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Nintendo DS, 2009), made by statically
recompiling the game: its ARM code is translated to C and compiled on your PC, not emulated.
Download the latest alpha for Windows or Linux (a Windows zip or a Linux AppImage; you bring your own ROM).
Project page: https://jonathandc64.github.io/FFCCEOT-Recomp/
Status: alpha. The game boots and plays from the title screen into the field, with sound, saves and online play.
It has been played through the opening areas, not the whole game, so expect rough edges: see
Alpha notes and the roadmap.
Features
- Plug and play. Download, run, choose your own ROM. The game is built on your PC in about a minute, once.
Nothing else to install. Windows and Linux (AppImage).
- USA and European versions: both dumps are supported (checked by SHA-1, each with its own save), and a language
setting picks the game's text language: English, French and Spanish in both versions, German in the European one.
- Single-screen play by default, with the second screen as a touchable picture-in-picture. Other layouts:
main + side, stacked, side by side, or the second screen in a window of its own. Swap the screens at any time.
- High resolution: the OpenGL renderer draws at up to 16x the DS resolution (4K and beyond), matched to your window
automatically, with nearest, linear and sharp scaling filters. The exact DS software renderer is kept as the reference.
- Smoother picture: texture smoothing (Smooth or Sharp) removes the blocky look of the DS textures and the jagged
edges of sprites in 3D, and Stable textures stops ground textures from warping.
- Smooth motion: the game draws its 3D at 30 fps; frame interpolation shows it at 60 fps or at your display's refresh
rate (144 Hz and more), with optional frame pacing for G-Sync and FreeSync displays.
- Widescreen (16:9, 16:10, 21:9, 32:9) with the health and magic bars at the screen edges and resizable.
- Modern controls: full gamepad play with no touch screen needed (the left stick moves, analog movement walks the way
the stick points), a radial for the right stick to pick the spell element, rebinding for keyboard and gamepad, mouse
as the stylus, and button names for Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo controllers.
- Online multiplayer restored through the community Wi-Fi Connection revival servers (Kaeru WFC, WiiLink WFC or your
own), plus local wireless between instances on one PC (Windows).
- Quality of life: skip the company logos, fast loading, fast saving, a faster emulated CPU, an in-game settings menu
with a Final Fantasy look that works with mouse, keyboard and gamepad, and two presets (Original and Enhanced) to
start from.
- Problem reports: Report an issue collects the version, settings, a recent log and a screenshot, with personal
paths removed, and opens a prefilled issue.
You need your own copy of the game
This project contains no game code or data. The program asks for your own dump of the game on first launch, checks
it, and builds everything it needs locally.
| Region | Code | Dump | SHA-1 |
|---|
| USA | CFIE | Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Echoes of Time (USA) (En,Fr,Es).nds | 1df23d5a3a655bdd587c360b581202931d0f66e1 |
| Europe | CFIP | Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Echoes of Time (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es).nds | 18f7004f74c83feba40f003641ec00571e52a301 |
The Japanese version is not supported. Each version keeps its own save (cfie.sav, cfip.sav); a USA save also loads in
the European game. The game's language (Settings, Game) is English by default; the USA version has English, French and Spanish, the
European one adds German.
Install and play
- Download the package for your system from the Releases page.
- Windows: unzip it to a folder you can write to (not Program Files) and run
ffcc.exe.
- Linux: make the
.AppImage executable (chmod +x) and run it. It needs glibc 2.35 or newer (Steam Deck: run it
from desktop mode).
- Choose your ROM (or drop it on the window). It is checked, a copy is kept in the data folder, and the game is built
with the compiler that comes in the package. That takes about a minute, once; an update that changes what is
generated rebuilds by itself from the kept copy.
- Pick a preset in the Welcome window (Enhanced is the recommended way to play) and press Play.
The start screen tells you when a newer release is out (it asks GitHub once at start and sends nothing but the program's
name and version; turn it off in Settings, Interface). It never downloads anything by itself: the Download button opens the
release page.
The program is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen or your antivirus may warn about it the first time, and about the
game module it builds. Saves and settings live in %APPDATA%\FFCCEOT-Recomp\EchoesOfTime (Linux:
~/.local/share/FFCCEOT-Recomp/EchoesOfTime); put a file named portable.txt next to the program (next to the
.AppImage on Linux) to keep them in a data folder beside it instead.
Controls
| DS button | Keyboard | Gamepad (Nintendo positions) |
|---|
| D-pad | Arrow keys | D-pad, left stick |
| A / B / X / Y | X / Z / S / A | Right / bottom / top / left face button |
| L / R | Q / W | Shoulder buttons |
| Start / Select | Enter / Right Shift | Start / Back |
| Touch screen | Mouse | (not needed: the game plays with buttons) |
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