PlayStation Preservation Team is What Nintendo Should Be Doing Too

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Doctor_MG said:

CaptainExplosion said:

This is why we need to preserve old games, and why Nintendo should have a game preservation team just like PlayStation!!

You're mixing up preservation with distribution. Nintendo preserves their games. That's how they were able to release an almost 30 year old incomplete game by the name of starfox 2. 

Nintendo is probably one of the best at preserving their old code, actually. They just don't distribute that code to the masses. In fact, rumor has it, they have the source code and/or a final ROM for every game that has ever released on any of their consoles.

Good point. A lot of Japanese developers in the 90s didn't preserve their games. They would delete them to make room for new games.  SEGA was one of these developers, they no longer have the code for Panzer Dragoon Saga for example. Capcom threw out the code to Okami and Ready at Dawn has to basically recreate the game. Every version of Okami played on modern platforms is the RoD recronstuction version of the game. I am only guessing here but that maybe why every Sonic Advenure port is based on the very different Gamecube version. It made a lot of changes. I think Falcom almost did a few years ago until fans made a huge fuss.