If it had been, don’t you think Square could simply remake it in one game rather than splitting it into the multi-game saga that it always has been? It would never work!

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Another problem is that physical is a red herring. You don’t own modern physical games any more than you own digital ones,

This is false. Most games do have the full game data on disc (or card). There are some specific examples, usually AAA titles like Hogwarts and Jedi Survivor, where there is either online DRM (I gather you mean online DRM, as that is the only thing that would make sense in context) or the title was too big to fit on one disc and they cheaped out. This is somewhat more common with Xbox hybrid discs; the disc will generally contain the Xbox One version, while the Series X version is a download. PlayStation 5 games generally have the full game on disc. Switch cards have the full game.

For the most part, if you buy a physical game, it has the game data on it.

as the famous The Crew shitshow has demonstrated. It doesn’t matter if you still have the fancy disc, if you can’t even go past the main menu when the publisher decides to shut down the game.

If it’s an online-only game, of course it’s not playable if the servers shut down. Don’t want to pay for a time-limited game? Don’t buy them. (I don’t.)

In the end DRM is the only deciding factor, not if the game is digital or physical.

This is also false. DRM (again, presumably you mean online DRM in this discussion) is not the sole deciding factor. The actual deciding factors are the things are cited above.

When you say that physical and digital are equivalent, you’re just factually wrong. There are certain cases where the physical disc isn’t sufficient, but by and large, this sweeping statement is incorrect.

You mean The Crew, the online-only racing game?

“It doesn’t apply to an online game, therefore it doesn’t apply to any situation.”

But I agree that it’s best to purchase DRM-free copies.

To be fair, there’s never been a time when Final Fantasy 9 could’ve been a single game. It’s simply never been possible.

No, it doesn’t copy the game data in the way you’re describing, anymore than a Game Genie would (it doesn’t either).

And anyway, this Nintendo lawyer fear is getting a little ridiculous in this community. ROM dumping for this kind of data is legal, at least in the United States.

Your understanding is incorrect if copying involves circumventing encryption or other means of protecting the data. That said, it’s not an issue for the Game Boy or Super NES.

Hello from Portland

Fan speculation and a whole article about it, and no one took the time to actually check…

I did literally five minutes of research and the remastered game screenshots on Sony’s blog post match the Working Designs script. So between that and the fact that a new translation isn’t listed in the features, it’s it pretty clear that they’re using that script, at least for English.

“A The Lord of the Rings Game”

I’d love that, but that isn’t really the pattern with these remakes. They do them because they’re way cheaper than making a new game.

I’m not going to make a big deal about it but it would be nice if they remastered Blood Omen also

For PS1?

https://www.pricecharting.com/console/playstation?sort=highest-price&genre-name=all&exclude-variants=true&exclude-hardware=true&when=none&release-date=2024-09-24&show-images=false&in-collection=

95% of games are below $60, and the vast majority of those are below $20.

You might mean “more than I’m willing to pay,” but it’s a market. There are millions of copies of certain titles, so no one is cornering the market. People are just willing to pay more than you. In the case of PS1, maybe $10-20 more. No one is getting rich from that.

What exactly is your definition of scalping in this case

Oh hey, I didn’t know there was a remake of this game. Imagine that, a game that actually deserved a remake! Hopefully this is translated to English.

Next they need to do Shin Onigashima. It’s similar to Famicom Detective Club or the 999 games. It’s had a couple remakes already, but not for Switch. Maybe they think it’s “too Japanese,” I dunno.

If they can prove clean room isolation, it’s also legal for a team to document the plans in detailed technical language and another team to implement from the documentation (provided to them via an intermediary not involved in either effort).

This is how the IBM BIOS was replicated by Compaq for its line of “IBM-compatible” PCs.

I have zero need for a PS5 Pro, but… I do want this.

The Dreamcast was released almost exactly 25 years ago. That’s the difference between the end of Gerald Ford’s presidency (what would have been Nixon’s second term) to 9/11. So I don’t know what time warp you fell into.

In real time it’s been longer than it was from NES to Super NES. For the teenagers clearly doing most of the commenting on these Nintendo posts, they were in elementary or middle school at launch. Now they’re in college.

How can someone look at all these different styles, let alone the ones that literally look like they’re drawn by a six-year-old, and think, “Yeah, that’s fine”?

It’s all bad

Buy Astro Bot