Why aren't there any Saturn or Dreamcast game re-releases

Sources are lost so no porting and emulation of those consoles isn't strong enough for commercial release - especially on other consoles.

>>3606178
What about in Japan?

It's much easier to port a simpler game.
Also, early 3D titles (3DO, PSX, Saturn) were built with specific system-hacks in mind.
Hell, a better example: most of the SNES games that are ported or re-released in collections don't have Mode 7 (which is a "SNES-specific" effect). For example, Megaman 7 used Mode 7 (in the credits scene), but the re-release didn't emulate this effect.

>>3606178
im pretty sure they had a dreamcast collection for the xbox 360

>>3606913
Also for PC. But it was only four games and they were not the strongest in the library by a long shot.

>>3606178
Sega just wants to forget those consoles, it's a dark past they want no contact with no more

>>3606178
Because that would require effort and investment.

For Genesis games you can toss an emulator and a bunch of roms onto a disc and call it a day since any potato can do good Genesis emulation. For Saturn and Dreamcast games you'd either need to port them from scratch, which costs a lot of time and money, or develop an emulator capable of providing acceptable emulation at a consumer level under the restrictions of a particular console's tech, which costs a lot of time and money.

It wouldn't make sense in Sega Saturn case, at least in the US, to port an old game when everyone wanted that THREE DEEE DUDE THE FUTURE LMAO. Also Sonic 3 was what, 2 or 3 years old at the time of the saturn release? It seems the consumers weren't that retarded to pay full price in the same game being released again and again and again and again... I had a good laugh with the rererererererelease of TLoU on PS4 pro

>>3607109
I think you misunderstood OP's question. And TLoU has had one rerelease, what are you on about? If you want an example of crazy rereleases, look at Sonic Adventure on Steam - a PC port of 360 port of a PC port of a GCN port of a revision of a Dreamcast game

>>3606178
>Why aren't there Dreamcast re-releases?

There are plenty!

Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 on the Gamecube.
Resident Evil Code Veronica X on the PS2
Jet Set Radio on the Xbox
Skies of Arcadia on the Gamecube
Shenmue 2 on the Xbox
Samba de Amingo on the Wii
Crazy Taxi series on the PS2 and Xbox
Phantasy Star Online for the Xbox and Gamecube.
Soul Calibur Xbox 360
Rez
Space Channel 5
House of the Dead
Typing of the Dead
Project Justice
Hydro Thunder
San Francisco Rush
Virtua Fighter 3
Ready 2 Rumble 2

Those are just off the top of my head. What made you think they didn't re-release any games!?

>>3607161
Also, most of these games were also released on PC both on disc and on Steam.

>>3606178
Because the Saturn is a bitch to emulate due to its screwy hardware, and Sega makes way more money off of ports of individual DC games (e.g. Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, etc.) than they would off of compilations (and they'd have to, due to the increased costs in porting compared to the Genesis and Master System/Game Gear).

>>3607161
chuchu on da gameboy

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>>3606178
Some Saturn games were re-released for PS2 in Japan as a part of the SEGA AGES 2500 collection but, for some reason or another, Sega never did something like this again.

>>3607161
What was Project Justice rereleased for?

>>3606178
Because all the best DC games got ported directly to Gamecube and PS2 anyway

>>3607161
>Jet Set Radio on the Xbox
That was a sequel

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>>3606178
>Buy this used for PS3
>Has Sonic 3
>Has Sonic & Knuckles
>Can't play Sonic 3 & Knuckles

What the fuck were they thinking?

>>3607161
>Project Justice
>Virtua Fighter 3

Explain.

>>3607986
He's probably talking the PS360/Steam/Vita release

>>3608065
IIRC the dev team said something about not having the time to implement it... which sounds like a load of bull since S3&K functionality is one of the most basic things a MD emulator can do. It's too bad Sega never put it on PSN or XBL like they did with other obvious omissions from the collection like Gunstar Heroes and Wonder Boy.

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For people who prefer the Dreamcast artsyle of SA1 to the Gamecube artstyle, this is for you

https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=35774

>>3608304
It is a load of bull.
S3&K can be made by literally concatenating the two ROM files together. There is absolutely nothing special required beyond that.