Release Hard Corps: Uprising on PC

[AxLTyler]

who agrees?

[PresidentCamacho]

Yes, also Contra 4 and Shattered Soldier.

[ContraWars]

Absolutely.

C4, HC:U, and ReBirth are the titles worthy of being salvaged and preserved on PC with ports or remasters. I don't care how bad the graphics are, the gameplay is rock solid in those.

The rest of the franchise is just pure disappointment at this point.

[Tsuki Zero]

nah, HC:U can rot. I'd rather have Contra 4 (thought that would require full redesign), Rebirth or EVEN Evolution.

[mauro_darkwolf]

it will be a dream

[MachTackle]

They might as well do a Contra Anniversary Collection 2 with all the games following the first collection up to Hard Corps Uprising. The two PSX games are terrible but the rest were all worth playing (SS, NC, 4,Rebirth, HC:U).

[Hero Lon]

Hard Corps Uprising was amazing.

[Tsuki Zero]

Are you sure you aren't experiencing a Mandella Effect? Hard Corps Uprising looked like a flash game and was very cringe.

[Muado 93]

I played Hard Corps Uprising a whole lot. I'd really like to see it, Contra 4 and ReBirth return and packaged alongside the PS2 games.

Neo Contra is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine.

[Silmeria]

Uprising can be emulated pretty well. It's a good game, with amazing controls, and experience, repeatability, but as a prequel, it lacks the aliens and the mutant/gore part of the series.

[Sashassin]

Hard Corps Uprising, Contra 4, Shattered Soldier, neo contra, and contra rebirth all play perfectly on steam deck via emulation. Don't hold your breath on them giving you the option to buy these games via steam.

[MachTackle]

Originally posted by Silmeria:

Uprising can be emulated pretty well. It's a good game, with amazing controls, and experience, repeatability, but as a prequel, it lacks the aliens and the mutant/gore part of the series.

I have to agree that I wasn't a fan of the mechanised bosses and missed the aliens and mutants but the gameplay was top-tier.

[Tsuki Zero]

Originally posted by Sashassin:

Hard Corps Uprising, Contra 4, Shattered Soldier, neo contra, and contra rebirth all play perfectly on steam deck via emulation. Don't hold your breath on them giving you the option to buy these games via steam.

I'd like to highlight this point for a particular reason:
Last night I was chatting on someone's channel, and someone brought up how Konami could just make a Rebirth bundle with like Dolphin or something and sell it, and how they are surprised that they haven't done it yet.

It's not all that simple. Yes, of course, "Emulation is legal, ROMs are not", and even then that argument flops on the second part because "ROMs can be legal", since game cartridges are, in fact, ROMs (bundled with other chips & etc, but you get the idea)... But the problem here is emulator. If the particular emulator has any legal violation, it needs to be scrubbed of that first, it shouldn't include ROMs or BIOS that are copyrighted, and should be licensed for distribution.

For an example, in ZDoom community there was once a case of someone wanting to make a game in that engine to sell, they would have even cooked up their own IWAD to not need Doom 2 or anything, but only received a flat "no" from the devs. It was much later that was changed to allow it, but the developer would need to use a version of GZDoom that came with all the legal stuff scrubbed.

There's also accuracy and requirements matter: too low of an accuracy is no good, neither is too high of a requirement.

[MachTackle]

Originally posted by Tsuki Zero:

I'd like to highlight this point for a particular reason:
Last night I was chatting on someone's channel, and someone brought up how Konami could just make a Rebirth bundle with like Dolphin or something and sell it, and how they are surprised that they haven't done it yet.

It's not all that simple. Yes, of course, "Emulation is legal, ROMs are not", and even then that argument flops on the second part because "ROMs can be legal", since game cartridges are, in fact, ROMs (bundled with other chips & etc, but you get the idea)... But the problem here is emulator. If the particular emulator has any legal violation, it needs to be scrubbed of that first, it shouldn't include ROMs or BIOS that are copyrighted, and should be licensed for distribution.

For an example, in ZDoom community there was once a case of someone wanting to make a game in that engine to sell, they would have even cooked up their own IWAD to not need Doom 2 or anything, but only received a flat "no" from the devs. It was much later that was changed to allow it, but the developer would need to use a version of GZDoom that came with all the legal stuff scrubbed.

There's also accuracy and requirements matter: too low of an accuracy is no good, neither is too high of a requirement.

Not sure why it wouldn't be possible. They already emulated multiple consoles in the previous collection.

Rare Replay is another example of multiple consoles being emulated for a collection. Granted 360 emulation was done with a Microsoft emulator (and had some issues) but it's definitely possible to make an in-house one if required.

[lflati]

+1 contra anniversary collection 2!! do it konami!!!

[Seekviewer]

You can play uprising in rcps3 man