Is MGS the only game that does something with other games' save files?

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Anonymous Sat Dec 15 09:41:02 2018 No.5222539 [Reply] [Original]

Is MGS the only game that does something with other games' save files?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 10:16:24 2018 No.5222603 File: 104 KB, 432x339, shck.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5222539 w-what?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 10:18:32 2018 No.5222609 >>5222539 I have a strong feeling there was at least one other that I played, but I can't remember. Nothing on that 4th wall breaking level though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 10:24:11 2018 No.5222624 >>5222603 When you fight Psycho Mantis anon. He doesn't mean that it's going to wipe your memory card or anything.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 10:26:19 2018 No.5222631 >>5222603 The game checks your memory card and there's a character that taunts you if you have specific games saved, it doesn't clobber your other saves or anything

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 10:30:37 2018 No.5222639

Suikoden II
http://suikoden.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Save_Bonus

Tomba 2
>Tomba 2 had several quests that could only be accessed by completing the first Tomba to a certain point and transferring the data over.

Legend of Mana
>In Legend of Mana, one of the early quests introduces the player to the mechanics of catching monster eggs, which would eventually hatch into friendly monsters the player could bring along. The starter monster would always be a Rabite (a small, relatively weak rabbit monster) unless the player happened to have a save from Final Fantasy VIII on their memory card - in which case the monster would be a Chocobo. Also, having a SaGa Frontier 2 save file allowed you to find a secret sword in Bone Fortress, and having a Chocobo Racing save net you a ring accessory from Polpota Harbor.

Arc the Lad
>The various Arc the Lad sequels have bonus content and characters that can only be unlocked by save files from the previous games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 10:33:00 2018 No.5222645 >>5222639 That's pretty neat.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 10:36:17 2018 No.5222652 >>5222639 such a shame that modern gaming has moved away from this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 10:37:46 2018 No.5222654 >>5222639 >legend of mana That's what I was trying to remember, thanks anon!

>>	anamouse Sat Dec 15 11:39:46 2018 No.5222727 File: 335 KB, 1280x854, 1534275167121.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I think death tank on duke nukem on sega saturn can be unlocked with a quake or powerslave save.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 11:59:40 2018 No.5222767 >>5222652 >locking content behind owning other games Why would you miss that? It was an early form of on-disc DLC.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 12:00:38 2018 No.5222770 >>5222767 Because having things carry over to a sequel is a neat idea.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 12:09:08 2018 No.5222794 >>5222652 Need For Speed Most Wanted gives you bonus starter cash if you have a Need For Speed Underground 2 save detected Need For Speed Payback gives you Eddie's Skyline if you have a Need For Speed 2015 save detected

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 12:15:37 2018 No.5222808 >>5222652 I don't mind it. I don't want any modern (or old publisher) going through my files and registry, while of course using the data for marketing purposes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 12:19:46 2018 No.5222816 Armored Core games usually give you a bonus if you have a save from a prior game. Just google "Old save bonus" for more examples. >>5222767 It's a bonus for fans of the series. It's pretty great, actually.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 12:27:37 2018 No.5222828 >>5222539 Vice City would fuck your game if you saved at the ice cream store.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 12:36:14 2018 No.5222842 File: 447 KB, 1413x1418, Holiday 2004 Demo Disc CD.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5222624 Yeah, we didn't get that until the PS2

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 12:50:37 2018 No.5222870

Baldur's Gate II let you import your character from the first game, as well as keep certain items.

This thread made me wonder about games actually altering the saves of other ones - like the sequel adding something to a save from the prequel, although that would be difficult and almost always would need to be planned in advance.

>>5222828
Huh, never heard of that. I think it was one of the save points I used most often in that game, so I guess I got lucky on some level.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 12:58:14 2018 No.5222892 >>5222539 The second Ratchet & Clank game would give you free weapons for having a clear file from the first saved. Same goes for the third game offering free weapons from R&C2 and a shop discount from R&C1 (as a callback to a joke from that game).

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:09:44 2018 No.5222916

>>5222652
What are you talking about?

The entire game worlds in the Mass Effect, Witcher, and Dragon Age Trilogies are affected in each successive game based on choices you made in the previous games (even though there is only one Dragon Age worth playing)

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:11:06 2018 No.5222917 >>5222870 Not just Baldur's Gate. The Pools of Radiance series was one long adventure, each game imported saves from the previous.

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:17:31 2018 No.5222926
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Suikoden II if you had a save from the first game
Also Suikoden III (non /vr/) is probably the only case of a PS2 game reading PS1 game saves (e.g. Suikoden II, which in turn could involve Suikoden)
I wonder how many people played all three games in succession and invoked proper game saves.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:25:53 2018 No.5222937 >>5222870 >it was one of the save points I used most often in that game, so I guess I got lucky on some level. They released a few revisions of the game.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:30:19 2018 No.5222945 >>5222926 Does this mean original hardware is absolutely necessary to utilize this feature? I don't think any PS2 emulators support reading PSX saves.

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:30:47 2018 No.5222946

>>5222937
I got the game shortly after release and never saw that, so I guess I just didn't use that save point or something.

I definitely had a buggy version, because there was a save point that only had guns up to the point you bought it, so I had to restart and buy that one last so I already had all the guns.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:43:57 2018 No.5222958 >>5222816 >>5222770 I don't see how it's neat. It's just gating off content. This is like people defending Amiibo because of the "free" content they get.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:45:11 2018 No.5222960 >>5222652 Smash Ultimate unlocks a Pikachu/Eevee spirit if you have LGPE save data.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:46:23 2018 No.5222961 >>5222945 No. It just requires converting the Suikoden 2 save file to one that PCSX2 can read off the virtual memory card.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:47:12 2018 No.5222965 >>5222945 I suppose or dexdrive at least to nab your PSX save

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:47:22 2018 No.5222967 >>5222958 How did people end up getting this entitled? It's surreal, but it's a pervasive attitude of the millennial generation.

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:50:02 2018 No.5222968

>>5222965
>dexdrive
Do you recommend any modern alternative that has native USB support instead of serial port? I'd like to play certain PS1 JRPGs on my PSP and then use my PC to transfer the saves back to my PS1 memory card when I get home and resume play on my TV.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:50:35 2018 No.5222969 >>5222539 there's a ton of games that give you bonuses for having saves from other games or lets you migrate your save from a previous entry.

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:52:48 2018 No.5222973

>>5222967
I don't see how wanting access to all the content in the game I paid for without having to purchase more shit is entitled. I never minded games that just gave you something like a headstart in game (extra consumable items, some bonus experience, money etc.) if prequel save data is detected. But locking unique items or modes behind it? Fuck off with that.

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:55:14 2018 No.5222978

>>5222652
>mass effect's entire trilogy let's you bring your character from the previous games
>gears of war 2 had multiplayer skins that could only be unlocked by having achievements in gears 1
>army of two: TFD gave you 2 guns for having a save from the first game

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:56:05 2018 No.5222982

>>5222842
>One of the premier demos on the disc was for Viewtiful Joe 2, which arrives on the console December 7.

>Unfortunately, gamers eager to sample the cel-shaded beat-'em-up were in for a very nasty surprise. That's because the demo contained a glitch that will erase all saved games on the memory card or cards currently inserted in the console.
Hahaha, oh wow.

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 13:56:54 2018 No.5222983

Monster Rancher 2 allows you to generate monsters based on Monster Rancher 1 save data in a process they refer to as "slating." Sometimes the monster that gets made is a direct copy of the MR1 monster's breed/sub breed with better stats, sometimes it's whatever the analogous monster in MR2 is, and in some cases (Slating utilizing a Magic from MR1, for example) you get rare breeds or ones with ??? sub breed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 14:00:01 2018 No.5222990 >>5222969 There aren't that many, to be frank. Burnout Revenge would give you a few cars if you had a Burnout 3 save.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 14:01:49 2018 No.5222993 >>5222926 I did. Suikoden III was the last one I played - I felt like it was a good enough game a fitting end to the trilogy, but I wasn't super impressed by it and I didn't buy IV.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 14:03:26 2018 No.5222996 >>5222916 Those games are shit though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 14:29:11 2018 No.5223032 >>5222973 You’re the reason games are so fucking easy these days. You throw a little pissy fit if the game has the audacity to throw any roadblocks in your way and you can’t get to see the content you want, when you want it. Fuck off you little faggot.

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 14:33:21 2018 No.5223040

>>5223032
>warping my argument
I'm not talking about locking content behind difficulty or challenge you tard. I'm strictly talking about on disc/cartridge content that can only be unlocked outside of the confines of the game itself i.e save data from another game.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 14:35:17 2018 No.5223042 >>5223032 i think your reading comprehension is failing, boomer

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 14:54:23 2018 No.5223064 >>5222926 The Japanese games you could port data like: Suikoden 1 > Suikoden 2 > Suikogaiden 1 > Suikogaiden 2 > Suikoden 3

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 15:01:04 2018 No.5223072 >>5222652 They haven't. You're just shitposting about games you don't play. Gat out of Hell immediately springs to mind. The main character you made for SR4 appears in the game.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 15:02:44 2018 No.5223078 >>5223072 >nobody can name anything but western trash And you wonder why nobody takes you /v/irgins seriously.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 15:04:21 2018 No.5223083 >>5222996 6.5 of them are good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 15:06:07 2018 No.5223087 >>5223078 >it's a SHAME no modern games do this anymore >names western example >wooooow western games suck ??????

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 15:06:17 2018 No.5223090 >>5223078 >muh jarpigs No one cares if you can unlock the neko costume in Loli Pantsu Adventure 6 if you 100% Loli Pantsu Adventure 5 you weeb faggot.

Anonymous Sat Dec 15 15:06:44 2018 No.5223091
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>>5223078
>Games don't do this anymore!
>[list games that do this]
>Those games don't count because reasons.

Can you tell me where you get your goalposts? They're so lightweight and easy to move.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 15:07:18 2018 No.5223094 >>5223091 4chan, m8.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 15:42:56 2018 No.5223148 >>5223078 >/v/irgins You stepped into the wrong neighborhood, motherfucker.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 15:53:59 2018 No.5223165 >>5223078 Sen no Kiseki has it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 16:00:22 2018 No.5223171 >>5223148 I'm implying you're filthy crossboarders.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 16:05:26 2018 No.5223178 File: 2.24 MB, 2290x2578, 1517156360618.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5223171 This is the last (You) I'm handing out, but everyone on this board came from /v/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 16:33:38 2018 No.5223226 >>5223178 I came from /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 16:37:46 2018 No.5223238 >>5222982 Soul Calibur III had a similar issue, and they never even bothered to patch it in later versions.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 16:59:14 2018 No.5223285 >>5222828 Only in the first version released, the one that had the names for weapons. (Combat shotgun was called spas etc) All other versions fixed that bug

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 17:52:44 2018 No.5223420 >>5222870 Panzer Dragoon Saga gives you extra stuff in Zwei.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 17:56:59 2018 No.5223431 >>5222652 guild wars 2 gave you weapon & armor skins, titles & pets based on your achievements in the first game. it also gave you name reservations.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 18:49:04 2018 No.5223542 >>5222639 You could also transfer monsters from Monster Rancher 1 to Monster Rancher 2. Called it “slating” them instead of dialing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 19:20:32 2018 No.5223586 >>5223542 Wasn't Monster Rancher also based around generating monsters by putting in random CDs?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 19:38:55 2018 No.5223626 >>5222539 No

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 20:33:00 2018 No.5223720 >>5223586 Yea, the last word autocorrected to dialing from discing. It was everything I wanted pokémon to be at the time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 20:37:35 2018 No.5223726 >>5222631 Don't forget he also calls you reckless if you don't or barely save. So yeah the game counts saves.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 20:47:35 2018 No.5223748 >>5223720 There was a moster catching game for GBC that generated the monsters by scanning barcodes

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 21:12:09 2018 No.5223786 >>5223748 Monster Maker Barcode Saga https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_barcode_games

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 22:04:26 2018 No.5223882 >>5223148 Actually, you should kill yourself as well

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 22:08:39 2018 No.5223895 >>5222993 Nice Also SV is really good (it's a prequel but you knew that)

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 01:28:56 2018 No.5224208 >>5222968 Yeah, a PS2 that can run uLaunchelf (via freemcboot, etc.) and a flash drive.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 04:43:48 2018 No.5224407 File: 1.85 MB, 400x292, 6E1A6C7CD9EE420BB245875AA215E216.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5223078 >Gets BTFO with facts >B-but those games are trash

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 05:03:35 2018 No.5224424 I can't remember the game but there was one that was bugged and could accidentally your whole memory card

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 05:03:37 2018 No.5224425 Nobody mentioned how in Sakura Taisen you carry over a girl's love points from one game to the next.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 08:11:02 2018 No.5224691 >>5224424 This ? >>5222842

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 09:37:26 2018 No.5224821 >>5222916 >mass effect let's not go there, shall we.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 15:47:13 2018 No.5225350 >>5222652 Yeah such a shame games don't pun-I mean reward you for being a good goy anymore...

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 15:56:06 2018 No.5225370 >>5223040 Yeah and you're being a faggot about it. Like psycho mantis talking about you playing castlevania or unlocking a dragon age themed armor in ME2 is something to get upset by.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 15:57:59 2018 No.5225374 >>5224424 You're probably thinking of vice city.

Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:13:25 2018 No.5225427
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>>5223032
>preferring unlocking content by playing the game rather than just buying your way into it is the reason why video games are so easy these days
Think you got that mixed up there chief.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:15:39 2018 No.5225438 >>5222539 not retro, but if you have a Mario 3D World save in Captain Toad on the wii u, you can play several mario 3d world stages as captain toad makes it interesting because these are levels you can beat without jumping

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:19:03 2018 No.5225442 >>5222603 MGS deletes your games if you die too many times. Snape gets really infuriated with you and that's that.

Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:22:27 2018 No.5225451

I'm amazed nobody's brought this up yet, but the Japanese Dance Dance Revolution PSX games had save files that interacted with each other. The biggest example is 5th mix, which had a contest to submit new charts for any song in the series. The winners all had their charts included in 5th mix, but you couldn't play the vast majority of them. Instead, you had to save the data to your memory card, then boot up the game the song originally appeared in to play it with the new chart.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:23:53 2018 No.5225456 File: 329 KB, 1440x1080, Solid Snape.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5225442 How do you unlock Snape in MGS?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:25:18 2018 No.5225460 >>5225451 I knew there was something like that, but never looked into it. I have all PS1 DDR games, gonna try it out later. Iirc, the pocketstation was also compatible with a couple of them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:31:18 2018 No.5225481 >>5225456 You have to get big boss's wig to tell you the Chambers's secret.

Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:31:39 2018 No.5225482

>>5225427
>buying your way into content
That's not what easter eggs are. It's not like they're hiding levels behind this sort of thing, just a sound clip or two, almost as a thank you for sticking around to play a series. It's like you've been brainfucked by all that 8gag garbage and you can't even process information normally.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:34:02 2018 No.5225490 >>5222652 Wasn't there recently some Senran Kagura game that gave you incentives if you owned another game? I think it was the one that's like Splatoon, and this was true even for the PC versions.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:41:30 2018 No.5225507 >>5224821 The first two mass effects had interesting lore and world building, if nothing else

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 16:47:11 2018 No.5225517 >>5225482 >>5225370 The examples first posted in this thread that started this whole argument (>>5222639) aren't simple easter eggs like in MGS. It's legitimate playable content.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 17:25:39 2018 No.5225614 >>5225482 Yeah keep side stepping what's actually being discussed because you dug yourself into a hole you can't crawl out of.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 17:52:04 2018 No.5225690 >>5225614 Sounds like exactly what you're doing, being vague to weasel out of an argument.

Anonymous Sun Dec 16 20:05:25 2018 No.5225969

I miss memory cards. Being able to just grab it and go to a friends house was the best. Messing with logins and accounts is a real pain in the ass.

Speaking of, were there any good games that got an American release that still supported things like the VMU or Pocketstation?

I know the Japanese Monster Rancher 2 game supported the pocketstation, but I think it got removed for the US release. There was also that cat thing it launched with, but I don’t think it was any good.

I actually never owned a VMU, was it any good?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 20:06:31 2018 No.5225975 File: 52 KB, 418x309, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5225969 Forgot my picture.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 20:12:12 2018 No.5225993 >>5225969 VMU was great for the little display on your controller. The minigame thing was a good concept but not that interesting in practice and once the batteries were dead iI never bothered changing them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 21:21:32 2018 No.5226220 >>5225969 >>5225975 It was cool but the batteries felt like they lasted for five minutes so every time you started up the console you'd hear a loud BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 21:36:54 2018 No.5226267 >>5222983 IIRC Dragon Seeds did something similar.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 23:10:47 2018 No.5226474 >>5222539 If you have a GT1 save file with B and A licenses done, you can load them to GT2 and skip the first two licenses. You can also load GT3 license progress and money to GT4.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 23:45:50 2018 No.5226542 >>5225517 It's still insignificant shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 00:03:17 2018 No.5226563 >>5226542 It's still content you should own gated behind more money. Why are you defending this? If it's just insignificant then why are you being so defensive?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 00:04:44 2018 No.5226567 >>5226563 >It's still content you should own gated behind more money. I'm sorry, are we still talking about a cute easter egg in MGS still

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 02:25:29 2018 No.5226753 >>5226563 >entitlement: the post

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 02:33:36 2018 No.5226767 >>5224424 Jak x combat racing. The autosave in that game could corrupt the entire memory card it was saving too and fuck your shit up

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 03:00:16 2018 No.5226803 >>5226753 >wanting access to everything you pay for is entitlement not him but you're retarded. this kind of shit is what led to DLC and lootboxes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 03:02:31 2018 No.5226808 >>5226803 >MUH DLC If you don't want it just don't buy it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 04:51:13 2018 No.5226926 >>5226567 No we're obviously not talking about that anymore. Dont jump into a conversation if you cant bother to read the whole reply chain.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 04:57:05 2018 No.5226934 >>5226753 Yes, I'm entitled to the content (or the ability to unlock it in-game through gameplay) I paid for, bootlicker.

Anonymous Mon Dec 17 05:24:00 2018 No.5226959

>>5226803
Many things "led to" those. Maybe you should get a terminator to go back and kill the parents if everyone involved in developing them. It'd be nice if it also took out the parents of underage shitposters.

>>5226934
>im entitled to whatever i think i am
Sorry. Not the way it works kiddo.

Anonymous Mon Dec 17 05:57:08 2018 No.5226993

>>5226567
>"I'm not mad you're mad"
Dude you are pissy that you're not getting one or 2 who gives a fuck missions or a chocobo or some kind of other shit.

It's some insignificant bonus for playing another game, it's not DLC. You keep trying to say you're not talking about MGS and Psycho Mantis anymore but you really might as well be for the autistic molehill you're making out of it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 06:03:47 2018 No.5227003 >>5226934 >bootlicker Yeah we're shilling for games which can out 25 years ago. It couldnt possibly be hyperbole with you turning novelty bonuses into grim foreshadowing of DLC.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 06:55:26 2018 No.5227057 Nobody mentioned quest for glory? Is this board getting too young?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 07:31:44 2018 No.5227097 >>5226474 I'm pretty sure Forza 3 and 4 each gave bonuses for having the previous game as well, but I might just be thinking of the starting bonuses from the 2-disc versions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 14:19:04 2018 No.5227719 >>5225690 >no u! Got any more hard hitting arguments there buster?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 14:33:34 2018 No.5227747 >>5227719 Boy, you sure are slow.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 14:35:00 2018 No.5227751 >>5227747 Ah so you don't have anything more to say and are just throwing a temper tantrum. Maybe you should take a nap champ.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 14:36:30 2018 No.5227752 >>5227751 Say about what? You're replying to a day old post and not really saying anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 14:47:08 2018 No.5227776 >>5226803 Having save data from one game giving you bonuses in another is not the same as simply buying those bonuses

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 16:09:38 2018 No.5227949 >>5227776 You're right. it's worse because a whole other game is more expensive than most DLC.

Anonymous Mon Dec 17 16:14:51 2018 No.5227962

>>5227003
Psycho Mantis' dialogue is a novelty bonus. Additional levels and characters in games like Tomba and Arc The Lad sequels are substantial content locked off by owning another game. Why defend that shit? Yes, its "cooler" now because anyone can download a PS1 iso set but that shit wasn't cool at the time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 16:18:06 2018 No.5227975 >>5227949 It's assumed that you already own the other game to begin with. These things weren't released out of order. Your argument only works in hindsight.

Anonymous Mon Dec 17 16:23:57 2018 No.5227993

>>5227975
1. That shouldn't be assumed. Yes, it would make sense that someone would own and play arc the lad games sequentially but maybe they lost their save data along the way.
2. Final Fantasy VIII and SaGa 2 aren't related to LoM but it still has content locked behind both games.

Why lock the content to begin with if not to encourage people to buy the other games?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 16:26:20 2018 No.5227997 >>5227993 Because players back then understood that it was content that wouldn't be in the game at all if not for being thrown in for that purpose. If you didn't have it, it wasn't a big deal since it had no real effect on anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 17:46:52 2018 No.5228197 >>5226934 >my entitlement level is >9000

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 17:51:58 2018 No.5228214 >>5228197 Why are you trying to spin someone's entitlement to a product they paid for as an insult?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 20:32:39 2018 No.5228524 >>5227949 >Implying people bought games just for the bonuses they'd get in other games

Anonymous Mon Dec 17 20:38:31 2018 No.5228536

>>5222958

Not only does that still not constitute DLC in any way, shape, or form, you can just download a save of the game and put it on your system.

Also you're a retard. There's nothing in, for instance, The Witcher 3 that you can't access when you don't import a save.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 20:56:38 2018 No.5228559 >>5223090 My sides

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 21:11:14 2018 No.5228576 >>5228536 >download a save >1996 Look at richie rich over here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 22:10:20 2018 No.5228691 >>5222982 This happened to me. Sony gave me a free copy of Sly 2 out of the deal but damn. I had a launch PS2 so years of data gone like that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 22:20:26 2018 No.5228723 >>5228576 desu I was thinking of the 2002-3 era. Every system by then had some way of getting it done. Actually can you move saves on newer systems? I know you can do it on Switch.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 22:27:50 2018 No.5228753 >>5222639 Just adding that the arc the lad series is awesome for between game stuff. Also Armored core series I thought let you transfer your saves to the other games or something... I should bust that series out again and find out

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 22:40:53 2018 No.5228793 >>5225451 man at one point I had gotten all the psx ddr games and had dance pads. I used to love that games carried stuff over. Good to see it mentioned here. Damn I should load those up in an emu and mess with them for a bit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 22:44:42 2018 No.5228806 >>5228214 >b-b-b-t im entitled to anything i want That's not the way it works kiddo

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 23:35:17 2018 No.5228913 >>5228806 Who are you quoting and why are you so desperate to appear older than you are?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 23:36:31 2018 No.5228917 >>5228723 >desu I was thinking of the 2002-3 era Great but we're talking about PS1 right now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 17 23:59:50 2018 No.5228954 >>5228723 > Actually can you move saves on newer systems? I know you can do it on Switch. You have been able to do it since PS3/360 era. Required a special memory card for the 360, but it works with any usb device now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 18 00:19:54 2018 No.5228994 >>5228536 If you had a friend who owned the game, you could just let him copy his save onto your memory card. I had a friend do that during the Gamecube era to get the Tails chao from Phantasy Star Online.

Anonymous Tue Dec 18 00:30:04 2018 No.5229008

>>5225969
>>5225975
>>5225993
>>5226220
Because of the batteries I eventually downloaded a vmu emulator for the dc. Burned it and now I just pop that in and load the vmu item of choice and enjoy on the big screen. which is nice since I have an older 52inch.. so doing it that way it did breath new life into the dreamcast for me in regards to vmu

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 18 01:42:47 2018 No.5229108 >>5228954 Not all games support it, though, some jap games tie your saves to your HDD key. Team ninja games come to mind.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 18 07:24:38 2018 No.5229440 >>5228913 >epic trollfail Just go back. Cease and desist.

Anonymous Wed Dec 19 16:30:47 2018 No.5231919

>>5222539
i've been told by people that developed psx software that a nice addition they'd put into games to detect piracy and cheating was to nuke your memory cards. detecting the modchip and shit like action replay was supposedly incredibly trivial. at some undefined point in the game's code, it'll check the system and start nuking your cards.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 16:33:14 2018 No.5231927 >>5231919 No, that was just your ass hole friends erasing your cards.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 16:50:46 2018 No.5231986 >>5231927 > being this fucking illiterate wow, this board sure isn't fucking CANCER, no.. not at all. fuck off and die, cancer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 16:56:35 2018 No.5231995 >>5231986 Shut the fuck up, stop trying to scare people with your bullshit.

Anonymous Wed Dec 19 17:00:26 2018 No.5232008

>>5231919
Actual source instead of lies? Until you provide source, the truth is the opposite. Nobody detected shit outside of very few outlier cases (Spyro Year of the Dragon comes to mind) so let's hear it, come on, anon. Are you a piece of fearmongering shit or are you legit, which is it?

Anonymous Wed Dec 19 17:42:18 2018 No.5232084

>>5232008
>>5231995
YES SIR, I'll just dig up my private conversations I've had with psx programmers and post them on 4chan for you talentless nobodies to read. TOP FUCKING KEK. you must be on some next level of retardation? amazing. and no, you won't get a thing. these protections exist and i'm not going to tell you what games they're in or who made them or worked on them. you should consider suicide for even dreaming that I would be a SNITCH and drop names. my sides. hilarious.
>Nobody detected shit outside of very few outlier cases (Spyro Year of the Dragon comes to mind)
well, you know then that it isn't bullshit. there's more than a few games that have these protections. dozens of them.. maybe more. people really didn't look very hard, even the cracking groups of the time for psx failed to find them. what chance do you computer illiterate plebs have?
> pro-tip: 0 chance
>> are you legit
I'm as serious as ebola about what I wrote, but you intellectual featherweights won't be getting any more information from me. you can ALL take turns licking the sweat off of my balls.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 20:53:26 2018 No.5232519 >>5222982 Jak X is also notorious for memory card issues. Any time you try to save your game, you're playing Russian Roulette with all the data on your card.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 20:55:51 2018 No.5232524 >>5222631 There's even comments for "impossible" cases, like Tokimeki Memorial if you're playing an English version of MGS.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 21:35:39 2018 No.5232598 >>5222652 The newer tales of games still give you costume stuff for having completed save files of previous games.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 21:53:37 2018 No.5232625 >>5222652 Trails in The Sky has some bonus for carrying over data from the past game, not to mention it makes references to sidequests if you did them. This applies to all the Kiseki games (Sky, Zero/Ao, CS1/2, CS3/4).

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 22:12:45 2018 No.5232651 >>5222539 Suikoden 2 would import your suikoden 1 character as an npc and other stuff.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 19 22:15:56 2018 No.5232656 There's an obscure bug in sonic 3 that erases all the saves on your genesis cartridge. The sonic jam port, being faithful to the original, will wipe all the saves in your saturn's internal memory.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:51:17 2018 No.5233759 >>5232084 >>5231919 why are your postings my-dad-works-at-nintendo-tier? antimod games were cracked soon after release, modchips were made into stealth-chips soon after antimod hit the games. same with libcrypt being cracked soon after appearing.

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