Aren't the FF V&VI playstations versions doodoo? Best games in the package...
V is supposed to be alright and VI isn't awful either. Avoid the PS1 version of Chrono Trigger like the plague though.
FF5 PSX runs "okay", but is saddled with the translation done in 1992 by the FF4 guy, which is pretty fucking bad.
I don't think this is true - do you have a source? I'm pretty sure this was a new translation from the time the PS version was released (or it might've been done back when they were going to release a PC version, not sure which). It reads like something written by a native English speaker who can't write, rather than native Japanese speakers with imperfect English (which the original FF2 US's translators were).
Anyway, maybe I'm too attached to the SNES versions so anything slightly different feels so so so wrong, but I find these completely unplayable. Load times, music and sound, picture (it's scaled or colored wrong or something), just ugh.