Megaman 8: why did they have to pick the playstation version

[BrokenXLR]

the playstation version of Megaman has cut content and the saturn vershion has the full game

[Gabby]

Probably due to the rights agreement made with SEGA at the time the game was made for the Saturn.

[Saralene]

There's probably three reasons, actually.

One would be that PSX games are easier to port than Saturn games by far. (It's a port, not emulation, although notably, Saturn -emulation- is also much harder.)

Two would be that the Saturn version doesn't support true transparency so some things look significantly worse.

Less importantly, the Saturn version's FMVs are way worse quality and blocky.

That said, it seems to just be common practice to port a PSX version over a Saturn version and sometimes the source code to the Saturn version of such games has even been lost, as is the case with the Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

[BrokenXLR]

they could have recreated them thoe

[Saralene]

Eh, it's not that easy to work with old source code or with assets that may be lost, unfortunately. It's doable but adding such content is not the kind of work a mere porting team is ever likely to undertake. It would be really nice! Just... alas, not realistic due to the way the game industry works in this regard. x_x

They did port the games, rather than just emulating them, but even then the porting job is quite direct and bare-bones. "New"/reproduced content is outside of the scope. (I wonder if they lost the original assets for the FMVs, though... It'd be actually pretty easy to improve them if they hadn't.)

[Gabby]

Sara is XSEED's main port programmer for Steam / PC. So we're hearing from an expert here on exactly the thing that she does, regularly.

[RollCaskett]

It's just Cutman & Woodman, big deal...

[BrokenXLR]

it still wold be good to have the definetive vershon of the game

[[MDI]]

Yeah that is definitely one thing I miss from the late 90s/early 2000s. I feel like Capcom took more time to merge all the content from previous ports to create as the guy above said a definitive port. SFA3 Max is a pretty good example. Even their inferior say, PS1 ports of CPS2 fighting games at least had new content to attempt to make up for the lack of arcade quality.

It was something, ya know?

Especially in an age now where retro games are a lot more accessible, these collections need more to diffirentiate themselves from being just simple roms.

Yeah its just Woodman and Cutman...but still.

[RollCaskett]

Originally posted by CPS2 Junker MDI:

Especially in an age now where retro games are a lot more accessible, these collections need more to diffirentiate themselves from being just simple roms.

Yeah its just Woodman and Cutman...but still.

MM 9 & 10 were not rereleased before this collection, it's more than just "a simple rom".

[Gabby]

Originally posted by CPS2 Junker MDI:

Especially in an age now where retro games are a lot more accessible, these collections need more to diffirentiate themselves from being just simple roms..

These aren't roms, they're actual ports.

And they offer quite a bit more than the original versions, including modes and added features that simply have never been available before.

[RollCaskett]

Originally posted by Seraphna:

Originally posted by CPS2 Junker MDI:

Especially in an age now where retro games are a lot more accessible, these collections need more to diffirentiate themselves from being just simple roms..

These aren't roms, they're actual ports.

And they offer quite a bit more than the original versions, including modes and added features that simply have never been available before.

Like Proto Man & Bass being able to fight against the MM Killers via Extra Challenges in MM10.

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by RollCaskett:

Originally posted by Seraphna:

These aren't roms, they're actual ports.

And they offer quite a bit more than the original versions, including modes and added features that simply have never been available before.

Like Proto Man & Bass being able to fight against the MM Killers via Extra Challenges in MM10.

NO those DLC where available for MM10, what are you talking about?
The extra stuff the ports have are the challenges, its the same for LLC1

[RollCaskett]

Originally posted by Agarillobob:

Originally posted by RollCaskett:

Like Proto Man & Bass being able to fight against the MM Killers via Extra Challenges in MM10.

NO those DLC where available for MM10, what are you talking about?
The extra stuff the ports have are the challenges, its the same for LLC1

No, Proto Man & Bass can NOT use the Mega Man Killer weapons or fight against them in the original release.

They still can’t use the weapons in this version anyhow..

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by RollCaskett:

Originally posted by Agarillobob:

NO those DLC where available for MM10, what are you talking about?
The extra stuff the ports have are the challenges, its the same for LLC1

No, Proto Man & Bass can NOT use the Mega Man Killer weapons or fight against them in the original release.

They still can’t use the weapons in this version anyhow..

I don´t even know what you are talking about. Can you eleborate a bit?
bass and proto were playable in MM10.
what Mega Man Killer Weapons are you talking about?

[Saralene]

Originally posted by Agarillobob:

I don't even know what you are talking about. Can you elaborate a bit?

There's three Extra Stages in Mega Man 10, accessible in Time Attack but not the main game.
In those, you fight Enker, Punk, and Ballade from the Game Boy Mega Man games.
If you defeat them as Mega Man, you can use their weapons in the main game.
Proto Man and Bass had no access to these Extra Stages, originally.
In this version, they can access those stages, but not the weapons.