Is there truly no hope for other older untranslated dungeon crawler games to be released for modern devices?

[30exp]

I do know dungeon crawlers are still being created so its not really gone but can we still expect to see the old ones that got forgotten in older devices. I for one would absolutely buy them especially seeing some untranslated Elminage titles on the PSP since they did released Elminage Original and gothic on the pc. Heck i would absolutely buy 7th dragon on pc for a reasonable price yet publishers still left them to rot.

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do publishers even care about game preservation anymore? or did they even care about it honestly i've lost hope cause even if they do released older titles they put BS prices or BS reasons

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

Publishers have never cared about preservation. If they think it'll make them a quick buck they'll dig up a few old titles but that's about it. a study from a few years ago found that 87% of games released before 2010 are not available on modern platforms. While I'm not certain the figure is completely accurate(there's far too many games to accurately calculate this, if anything it's probably much higher than 87%) it does give you a good idea of where we're currently at.
Don't count on the publishers, if there's something you want to play it's best to find a way to play it yourself.

 

[Azazelivae]

If a Corp ever said that they're CARED about Game Preservation.

It's nothing more than a Corporate Move, look even an Entity like GOG who actually cared didn't go all the way for Game Preservation depending on how you see it, let alone another Money-Grubbing Corporate.

If you really WANTED that they cared about Preservation that bad, and to release Older Game and even support it into newer Console, maybe you can started by saying "Gamer would buy an Older Game for 10x the prices as long as there's no content removed" or something.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

What do you want to play? Just install DOSBox on your Android phone and you're good to go. If you wait for a publisher you'll still be here waiting for years.

 

[30exp]

What do you want to play? Just install DOSBox on your Android phone and you're good to go. If you wait for a publisher you'll still be here waiting for years.

yeah but sadly most games i want to play is still untranslated until however i'll learn another language that is

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If a Corp ever said that they're CARED about Game Preservation.

It's nothing more than a Corporate Move, look even an Entity like GOG who actually cared didn't go all the way for Game Preservation depending on how you see it, let alone another Money-Grubbing Corporate.

If you really WANTED that they cared about Preservation that bad, and to release Older Game and even support it into newer Console, maybe you can started by saying "Gamer would buy an Older Game for 10x the prices as long as there's no content removed" or something.

almost like they want us to get sucked dry or just consume newer products with questionable quality and outrageous prices

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

yeah but sadly most games i want to play is still untranslated until however i'll learn another language that is

Yes. Go for it. Would be the perfect motivation tool to learn another language, and get in a translation team...

GitHub - DoctorGoat/ElminageGothic: Translation of Elminage Gothic.

Translation of Elminage Gothic. Contribute to DoctorGoat/ElminageGothic development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

untranslated text heavy games I had interest in playing used to scare me off but not so much anymore. Turns out you can get pretty far with just basic reading comprehension, a dictionary and Google lens. I've learnt a lot of Japanese this way.

 

[UnDubious]

Little hope probably, but not no hope. In recent years, for example, Rhapsody 2 and 3, from the PS1 and PS2 respectively, were finally released officially in English. Cosmic Fantasy 1, 3 and both chapters of 4 came out in English for the Switch. So that's 6 RPGs from the '90s and early '00s that were first made available in English all this time after. Then there are also fan translations. So those games you want to play in English *could* be in English one day. Meanwhile, life goes on and there are many other things to do.

 

[valosagutas]

Well the hope I have, in the best way I think can be, is developing certain AI's that can turn video game into source codes that may need tweaking by a human or not, and then the source code can be tweaked in a way humans or AI can even translate the whole game, then convert it in a way the game works in the original intended video game platform or any platform that can run the game.

I'm not video game translation expert, but I can imagine some video games, because of the way they are, can be impossible to translate them and make the game work just fine. They may rather require a way to dismantle them to their mere source code, instead of allowing you to translate the game like how you mod a game.