Welcome to Paladin's FinalFantasyIV.net!

This is Paladin's Unofficial Final Fantasy IV Fan Web Site, and soon to be your online source for Final Fantasy IV!

Please Be Aware! We are still under heavy construction. Mostly offline compilation of data for insertion into the new site database. This is taking much longer than expected due to the volume of data from my old static content sites. More content and content sections are forthcoming!

While FinalFantasyIV.net is devoted to the Square-Enix video game "Final Fantasy IV", this web site is not officially affiliated with Square-Enix in any way. If you are looking for an official web site for Square-Enix's Final Fantasy series, please visit the Square-Enix corporate web site to navigate to the appropriate destination.

NEWS: Image Gallery Underway

Posted On: 8/12/2009 4:19:39 PM

Well although it doesn't look like it, I have spent the last two months working behind the scenes on getting the content for the FinalFantasyIV.net image gallery ready.

If you had seen any of my previous FF4 sites you probably noticed I had quite a few official images from various FF4 media. Well this hasn't changed, and indeed with a few eBay finds and the release of the DS version this archive has increased. I've also scanned in more content from Yoshitaka Amano's "The Sky" collection almost all the artwork that pertains to FF4, this including almost double the amount of Amano works I previously hosted.

All told I have been sifting through about 400+ image files totaling over 2GB of Raw image data (many scans are much larger than can be used online). Hopefully by the end of next month I should have formatted, cleaned-up, cropped, and readied the entire collection of images for hosting. Shortly thereafter I'll have the new Image Collection online for everyone's viewing pleasure.

I will say there is a lot of great new image content, especially since the DS release. So stay tuned within the next month or so for more updates on this coming content improvement, which I hope will be the first of many so that this site actually nears completion (such as that can be).

UPDATE: New Affiliate

Posted On: 5/21/2009 6:02:24 PM

Just a quick update, after an email discussion with the webmaster of FantasyAnime.com, that web domain and the related FF4 site found within have been made affiliates of FinalFantasyIV.net.

The FantasyAnime FF4 site has some really cool content so I suggest you give it a look-see, but use the link below to go to the main FantasyAnime.com site to see if anything else piques your interest, and I should imagine it will.

UPDATE: Spring Link Cleaning

Posted On: 5/19/2009 10:38:37 AM

Just a quick update... I went through the link section of the site and found some dead or missing links so they have been removed. Sadly mostly deletions rather than any additions.

An official site died, the PSx version online strategy guide disappeared from the Square-Enix site. That link has been dropped.

We lost two affiliates, first Serverus' Tower of Babil appears to have gone down, and furthermore a business has picked up his old domain so that site is surely gone for good...unless I hear from Serverus...

Doc finally dropped the FF4 section of Waterbearer.net, which isn't altogether surprising as the last I heard from Doc was that it would likely go away at some point. Those links have been removed, no need to waste Doc's bandwidth with useless hits.

The only change I found was Aa-Chan's fan shrine. She had started a new web site for Edward x Anna and her FF-IV art, but that seems to be gone, although all her artwork is available on her Deviant Art site which she has linked in her Sygnus profile. I've updated that link for those of you Edward and Anna fans out there.

I don't browse the web much anymore for Final Fantasy IV beyond software hacking. I mean not to be arrogant, but I have nearly every source of story and cannon information on the game in my possession so I rarely search anymore. There may be new fans since the DS release making sites or shrines. Therefore if anyone has a good FF-IV site out there, let me know if you'd like to share links.

Well that's the all the pittance of an update for now. The outlook for any major work is likely end of June at the earliest. So go out and enjoy the spring weather and maybe play through a copy of FF4 on a hand-held out on a sunny day!

One whole year...

...since the last news article

Posted On: 4/3/2009 12:16:46 AM

While although it is past midnight here in the Eastern Time zone (even if we weren't using the farce that is "Daylight Savings Time") I find it humorous that it's been exactly one year, give or take a few hours, since I last updated this news feed.

Firstly, no I didn't die...but no I haven't really worked on the site much in the last 12 months, that is not really at all. I may do some work soon, at least I think I should get the image archive mirrored here from the old PaladiNet site sometime soon, plus update it with some new content from the DS release.

On that note, certainly Final Fantasy IV DS has hit and was fairly well received by RPG gamers on the whole, although Final Fantasy IV fans are somewhat cooler, especially towards the new canon changes.

Most of the FF4 cognoscenti I personally have discussed with are rather disgusted by "Final Fantasy IV: The After". This is the sequel to FF4 DS which released on the DoCoMo phone late in 2008 and is expected to come as a downloadable Wii game for North American players. There are many reasons for why many longtime FF4 fans are averse to this game, mostly because it's a cheap reuse of characters for no really good reason. Basically there's no added value to the original canon story from the "classic" game. Simply a reuse of characters.

Anyway, only a day or so after April Fools, I won't kid you. I do intend to work on the site soon so hopefully more content is forthcoming. I better do something soon, this site is showing up on the first page of Google for some search terms! SEO baby...SEO...(and a strong domain name...ain't hurtin')...I'm not lying I build web sites and web applications for a living... I just don't work on this one enough!

NEWS: FF4 DS North American Release Imminent

Nintendo Power Magazine Article, Official N.A. Site / Press Release, Sheds Light on an FF4 DS English Localization

Posted On: 4/2/2008 8:52:55 AM

 

 

Thanks to Dark Knight Elliot at Sygnus.org for finding THIS article about the newest issue of Nintendo Power magazine with a cover story scoop on Final Fantasy IV DS. Wherein apparently a 10 page article is contained about the game. The web article makes it clear that there is not 100% confirmation of a North American localization nor is there a release date. However, the screenshots of the game in the NP article apparently show in-game dialogue in English. Therefore a release of the game, at least in English, is extremely likely.

UPDATE:  According to THIS article on RPGFan.com, Final Fantasy IV DS is expected in North America sometime in July! Thanks to Edge_623 from the Sygnus forum for the heads up.

UPDATE #2:  In case you're even the least bit dubious of those sources there is now an official Square-Enix Final Fantasy IV DS website that has gone up for North America: http://na.square-enix.com/ff4/. It doesn't get more official than that folks. There WILL be a North American English release of the game. Thanks to Aywren herself for posting the link.

And if all that isn't good enough. Here's the final word in THIS Official S-E North America press release. The game should be available July 22nd.

UPDATE: New Mysidian Legend Version

Posted On: 3/9/2008 10:16:57 PM

A new English version of the Mysidian Legend has been found on the packaging of the Final Fantasy IV DS Original Soundtrack. This new version is perhaps the most unique and lyrical "official translation" to date.

You can find it: Here!

NEWS: Final Fantasy IV Sequel Website

Posted On: 2/20/2008 12:56:50 PM

As usual word from Sygnus.org has caused an update on the news here. Looks like the impending sequel to Final Fantasy IV for the DoCoMo mobile phone which is entitled Final Fantasy IV: The After now has a website

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/mobile/ff/ff4after/index.html

What we have on that website is some very intriguing concept artwork for the characters. Especially since this depicts the characters what appears to be 15-20 years older than they were at the end of the original FF-IV story. For the most part I like the artwork, however it is pointed out that some characters have changed rather drastically. Namely Porom appears to have red/pink hair now for an unknown reason.

The game also appears to have new battle sprites for everyone, which are the more advanced form of 24x16 pixel sprites used throughout Final Fantasy VI. It also appears from the screen shots on the FF4-TA site that these sprites may be used as your "map character" instead of the archaic 16x16 pixel sprites 2D versions of Final Fantasy IV have always used.

So the jury is still out, but at least there's a place to perhaps keep up on what's new about this title