Why SEGA dont add Sonic Heroes to steam?

[SerQ 🔥]

I wanna buy and play Sonic Heroes in steam :DD
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[Harry the Human]

I think I need it on steam as I only have the ps2 version as I didn't own a GameCube

[Mitzeen]

that's a nice question XD many other games will too but no :c

[therealyocow]

There's already a pre-existing Sonic Heroes PC port, and it works perfectly fine, just needs widescreen support which would be ridiculously easy to implement. In fact, the Sonic Heroes PC port already has a widescreen patch that makes it look great aside from the menus. It baffle's me SEGA hasn't capitalized on it yet and updated it like they did with SADX.

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by Tails Guy:

There's already a pre-existing Sonic Heroes PC port, and it works perfectly fine, just needs widescreen support which would be ridiculously easy to implement. In fact, the Sonic Heroes PC port already has a widescreen patch that makes it look great aside from the menus. It baffle's me SEGA hasn't capitalized on it yet and updated it like they did with SADX.

Except on Windows 10 because I tried to install my Sold Out Software disk copy a while ago, and it installed fine, but the game wouldn't run, neither executable nor launcher and I was forced to uninstall it again.

That could just be that it was a different version of the port, but I'm not that sure.

[buttered_toast]

Music licensing, perhaps? I can't think of anything else in the game that could deter them.
It was rated by the ESRB for release as a PS2 Classic and then they didn't release it in North America, so at some point they were invested in making the game available through digital distribution and something stopped them.
But Heroes and Shadow have seen digital rereleases in other regions, so I'm guessing it's not completely out of their hands, just not financially viable right now.

[Rohaq]

I'd love to see Sonic Colors too, considering it was a Wii exclusive, and the Wii is now almost 2 console generations behind.

[Gnidex]

Originally posted by buttered_toast:

Music licensing, perhaps? I can't think of anything else in the game that could deter them.
It was rated by the ESRB for release as a PS2 Classic and then they didn't release it in North America, so at some point they were invested in making the game available through digital distribution and something stopped them.
But Heroes and Shadow have seen digital rereleases in other regions, so I'm guessing it's not completely out of their hands, just not financially viable right now.

I doubt that because music from Heroes appeared in Generations. Jun Senoue was the only composer of Sonic Heroes, so if they can use Seaside Hill, Ocean Palace and Egg Emperor, they can use anything else.

Originally posted by Rohaq:

I'd love to see Sonic Colors too, considering it was a Wii exclusive, and the Wii is now almost 2 console generations behind.

Sonic Lost World was Wii U exclusive and it was ported. They can port Colors whenever they want.

[buttered_toast]

Originally posted by Gnidex:

I doubt that because music from Heroes appeared in Generations. Jun Senoue was the only composer of Sonic Heroes, so if they can use Seaside Hill, Ocean Palace and Egg Emperor, they can use anything else.

The vocal themes for each team performed by outside bands are what I'm thinking of, not stage BGM.

[Allard]

Originally posted by buttered_toast:

Originally posted by Gnidex:

I doubt that because music from Heroes appeared in Generations. Jun Senoue was the only composer of Sonic Heroes, so if they can use Seaside Hill, Ocean Palace and Egg Emperor, they can use anything else.

The vocal themes for each team performed by outside bands are what I'm thinking of, not stage BGM.

But then again, the game IS on PSN.

[KaZudra]

Honestly, steam can use more Sonic. I would love Heroes, Shade and Taxman's Mobile Ports of Sonic 1+2, and a few others like Colors. We're getting (if it doesn't get canceled or SEGA does Cease & Desist) a Unity made Sonic 06 in the near future.

Overall, Sonic's life on the PC is more than welcome, and it's more opprutunity to have more variety in Johnny's Annual Hacking Constest showcase.

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by Starchaser:

Honestly, steam can use more Sonic. I would love Heroes, Shade and Taxman's Mobile Ports of Sonic 1+2, and a few others like Colors. We're getting (if it doesn't get canceled or SEGA does Cease & Desist) a Unity made Sonic 06 in the near future.

I don't think SEGA will attack it because unlike nintendo, they seem to understand why fan projects help the company as well as the community whereas C&Ding them for "copyright theft" ironically hurts sales.

When Nintendo did it to AM2R, I put my copy of that fan game on my onedrive for anyone to take and pirated the original Metroid 2 in color.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=862726841

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=774441910

Nintendo even removed AM2R despite it also being a tribute to one of their dead employees, which was just tasteless considering the memorial in question was for their former boss.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=812456825

I can give you guys the link to AM2R as well as a copy of my copy of the Sonic Utopia demo and the Sonic 2006 PC demo.

https://onedrive.live.com/?id=5719D07AEFC8BD9D%21105&cid=5719D07AEFC8BD9D

EDIT: Have to update the link to google drive instead due to needing to make space on onedrive.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H5h6JAwXQM71RpKWjD6-mxf3jlhsKjD4/view?usp=sharing

The Sonic links are in those videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG0rRTBgiro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt1qF_B9MME&t=1397s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzzWG-S3N_E&list=PLuWWx5Uk-l02UEbQDjc3fbyCu7iIuxqyc&index=35&t=0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRkq2ti7uyo&list=PLuWWx5Uk-l02UEbQDjc3fbyCu7iIuxqyc&index=43&t=1s

[julayla18.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

I think the reason why there's no re-release of the game is perhaps SEGA secretly doesn't like Sonic Heroes as much as we are led to believe.

[The Devasia Mentality]

Originally posted by julayla18:

I think the reason why there's no re-release of the game is perhaps SEGA secretly doesn't like Sonic Heroes as much as we are led to believe.

If so that's one thing I would finally be able to agree with them on.

[dookie]

yea they should add it on steam, it has a good pc port and works well on a modern pc with widescreen mods and controller support

[468528456]

They can't because it was made with Renderware which is owned by EA. Someone could remake it in another engine but the original will NEVER be on steam thanks to EA.