The developers of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles had even more work ahead of them than you might expect from a typical remaster project. The original game lost its source code sometime in the years following its launch on PS1, which means Square Enix had to make use of every available resource to get the new version right.
"When we first decided that we were going to start this process, and we were going to start development, we came to the realization that we didn't have the original source code for the game," director Kazutoyo Maehiro tells GamesRadar+. "So the project actually started from us using what resources we did have available to us, whether that be the retail copy of the game, or the smartphone version, and analyzing that code, and then from that analysis, rebuilding The Ivalice Chronicles."
