I agree Atlus needs to get on their preservation game!!
Yeah, but they been working on so many NEWER games...they ain't a bunch of lazy bums relying on single franchise or a new game a decade. Their library is humongous.
SMT1 already had an official translation but because Atlus are stupid, they trapped it on IOS and forgot to update it, so you can't buy it any more.
I know that, and that's exactly why it doesn't count, in practice. Plus, as far as I'm aware, the GBA never got a port of SMT If, so even if they did bring the GBA versions officially, it would still be missing one game.
Why would they when everyone is just gonna play the SNES or PSX versions fan translated. Companies are there to make money.
The really good MT games are MT2, and SMT 2 if..., 3 and 4, and the persona series.
That's how I got into real SMT. I got into Persona cause I played Revelations on PS1. Then I saw Marsh explain SMTIF and thought it looked cool and started emulating SNES since that's the only version in English
Do you guys actually know what preservation is? all of these games have already been preserved by the good people that dumped them online years ago. the files are free, accessible and playable to everyone now (even if you don't have a pc). Re-releasing a game on modern consoles is not "preservation", emulation is.
Yes and you can easily find them online so what's your point? Also only the SMTI bugfix is required, SMTII is playable as it is.
My point is that there are better ways to play than the SNES versions regardless, and these should become more widely available.
Atlus stopped being able to make easy money porting from the DS to its immediate successor so they stopped doing the ports. The only one of those 3DS ports that was worth a damn was Soul Hackers... every other one was a cheap cash grab with the story messed with, P2W DLC forced in and sometimes they'd mess with the game balance too to "encourage" sales of the DLC (see the Radiant Historia port). I believe they stopped after the EO2 port/remake got heavy backlash in Japan, over its DLC of course, and I'd rather they not start again all things considered.
This, pretty much. The only remaster aspects I'd want is maybe HD textures and other QoL things. It'd be cool if you could use 2's mantra system in 1, for example. Grinding in 1 could be super tedious for late level mantras (shout out to anyone who had the patience to grind for destroyer/dark lord/etc), so it'd be nice if a hypothetical remaster could do something to help speed up that process.
