Free implementation of the Final Fantasy 7 game engine, designed to work with the original game data.
V-Gears is a free implementation of the Final Fantasy 7 game engine, designed to work with the original game data.
It's designed to run the original game data on modern operating systems, making the game playable without the need of emulators.
It's free software, and it's designed to be cross-platform. It, of course, doesn't include any copyrighted data from the original game, but it provides an installer to get the required data from your own PC copy of the game.
It's a continuation of q-gears, which is an enormous project started by some great people many years ago, with the same purpose as this, but which unfortunately became stalled.
Source code on Github. 
See web site. 
An eternally ongoing project, with which I have learned many new things. My first contact with C++, with 3D graphics, sound, a lot of strange formats to understand and decode...
Final Fantasy VII has always been my favorite video game, and working on something that can revive it, transform it and enjoy it again is being very stimulating.
There is still a lot to do, but little by little, I am adding more functionalities and stabilizing it. I hope one day it can run the full game!
