Panzer Dragoon: Remake (Nintendo Switch Digital Download)

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01-21-2021 at 06:19 PM #3

Very cool, didn't know this was made! Fingers crossed for PDS remake. That would be amazing.

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01-21-2021 at 06:23 PM #4

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Very cool, didn't know this was made! Fingers crossed for PDS remake. That would be amazing.

Apparently Sega lost the original coding, don't think that will be happening unfortunately. BUT Panzer Dragoon Zwei is being remade by this same team! Should be out later this year

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01-21-2021 at 06:28 PM #5

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Apparently Sega lost the original coding, don't think that will be happening unfortunately. BUT Panzer Dragoon Zwei is being remade by this same team! Should be out later this year

Couldn't they just use the actual game disks to recreate the coding ?

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01-21-2021 at 06:38 PM #6

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Couldn't they just use the actual game disks to recreate the coding ?

So let me preface by saying I am not a coder in any way whatsoever, but my understanding is that like in this case PDS was optimized to run on the Saturn so every facet of the game was coded to run on that specific hardware configuration. Porting a game to different hardware results in having to edit specific components of the game to get the whole package to run smoothly. So in this case without the original coding there really isn't a feasible way to bring it to current hardware because you don't have the game engine, audio files, textures, etc. There has been games remade in the past with partial coding, but then the team remaking the game literally has to go in and fill those voids which can make it feel off.

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01-21-2021 at 06:43 PM #7

Wow, that's a good explanation. I appreciate it. I loved the game when I had it back in 98 or 99 but sold it years ago, back when it fetched $300. Shocked to see ppl buying a saturn game for over $1000 now.

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01-21-2021 at 06:53 PM #8

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Wow, that's a good explanation. I appreciate it. I loved the game when I had it back in 98 or 99 but sold it years ago, back when it fetched $300. Shocked to see ppl buying a saturn game for over $1000 now.

I should sell my copy...

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01-21-2021 at 07:02 PM #9

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I should sell my copy...

It's only going to increase in value. Im shocked by what it's fetching today. There's gotta be a ceiling right?

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01-21-2021 at 08:04 PM #10

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Couldn't they just use the actual game disks to recreate the coding ?

That's called "reverse engineering" and not as easy as it sounds. Especially, when you deal with outdated instruction sets that few people have experience/knowledge of. And then, especially with older systems, engineers pulled all kinds of tricks to make certain things work. Those kind of things tend to be marked with "comments" to explain why they did what they did. None of that information would be present when you reverse engineer the program. It's a very costly task, it's likely not worth the effort. In such cases running games emulating the hardware makes more sense.

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