I must admit, I’ve not played Final Fantasy XI (I hear its rubbish) but this home brew effort of porting the card game from FFVIII looks a lot more exciting than Squeenix’s online attempts. I’ve always had a soft spot for the minigame myself so it’s nice to see that its living on beyond Square’s control.

Again, I wish I had a PSP for this crack. I’ve no idea about the stance Sony take on homebrew though, last I heard they try to eradicate it monthly with firmware updates. It’s a real shame because this is the sort of thing we want from game developers but never actually get and its obviously a real plus for geeks to get the machine for the home brew capabilities. In fact I don’t really understand their stance on it, especially seeing as its not the best selling machine out there. Don’t they want to sell PSPs? Sadly Square would never think to make this either because of the simple nature of it, even its online structure is incredibly hard to program (kudos if the online part works as fluidly if it seems).

Well done to the guys that made this, it looks great and your hard efforts clearly won’t go to waste. If Square have the slightest hint of intelligence they will hire these guys right away - obviously a lot of potential there.

Source: Kotaku,

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