Two years later, on April 25th 2001 they released an official Windows PC port of the game. One of those titles was Growlanser, a RPG by Atlus and CareerSoft, initially released in 1999 for the PlayStation. However, besides console games, they also released and distributed ports of popular titles on the PC or localizations of European or American games (such as SimCity 4 etc.)
Their first release was the original debut of Final Fantasy VII in Japan. Hello everyone! I'm relatevely new around here, but I saw this post way back and I would like to contribute some info about obscure PC ports and releases, particularly from Japan or South Korea.īack in 1997, Squaresoft (now Square Enix) developed a service to distribute games across Japan's many convenient stores, or through digital kiosks. Speaking of regions, I noticed we don't yet cover the Japanese version of Gurumin. American releases of a number of PC ports (Sonic Adventure, Sonic Heroes, TMNT 2003, Metal Gear Solid 2, etc) were in cardboard boxes more likely to get lost or destroyed, compared to European DVD cases. Packaging quality appears to be a common factor. I wonder if the lackluster American PC market was in part influenced by the thunderous success of the PlayStation 2, or Microsoft wanting to shift focus to the Xbox, or maybe both. From the UK to Russia and everywhere in between, Billy Hatcher's PC distribution was much better. By contrast, the lesser known Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg PC version has numerous listings, albeit Europe only as the game was Europe-only. The distribution model was absolutely abysmal. I guess with how uncommon some of these games appear to be, it's no surprise why such a large number of 6th generation games never got PC versions. I was always under the impression that Sonic Adventure was one of the quintessential PC ports. They used dgVoodoo to fix the rendering and winmm for CD audio, so they themselves basically didn't do any hard work.Īs for early PC games with widescreen support I know Machines from April 1999 (one of the first 3D RTS games) and Starship Troopers Terran Ascendancy from October 2000, however menus remain 640x480. The re-release does not have widescreen, which tells a lot about how much the new publishers cared. He made a widescreen fix for Extreme G-2 when I asked him, which is also a relatively unknown N64 game ported to PC, but it re-released on Steam few years ago. I wanted to ask a guy called "jackfuste" on Widescreen Gaming Forums to make a widescreen fix, but I never did.
However it seems like the PC version is locked to 30FPS while the Dreamcast version runs at 60FPS. Speaking of widescreen, South Park Rally seems to be one of the earliest PC games to support it natively, without any weird stretching or cropping quirks. A bit weird that Space Circus doesn't include the widescreen mode from the N64 version, I wonder if someone, preferably thirteenag, could make a widescreen hack of it, it seems like the PC version is leaps and bounds better than the console version. Space Circus reminds me of the fact that Jersey Devil also got a PC version in addition to the PS1 version, but aside from downloads, it's as if this version never existed, I can't even find a box scan of it. Are there any other games with PC versions that the internet doesn't seem to know (or care) existed, or perhaps versions that claim to exist but actually don't? While their PC versions aren't entirely unknown, Wikipedia claims that Metal Gear Solid 2's PC version was also released in the United States, but all results for it on ebay are European, and likewise Wikipedia seems to believe that Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run was only released on consoles. You can't find Frogger Beyond on eBay while Mashed: Fully Loaded has precisely one (Italian) listing, but there are videos of their PC versions on YouTube ( Frogger, Mashed). Two other games confirmed to exist but left no traces of release are Frogger Beyond and Mashed: Fully Loaded. This proves that MorphX was indeed localized for PC, but proof of it actually existing is very limited.
#Morphx achievements cracked
The same forum also hosts a demo of MorphX, but it requires a cracked executable as the TAGES DRM requires a serial code that cannot be cheated, it also requires online activation. A forum (I forget which, sorry) uncovered that it was indeed sold digitally, but has been since taken down. Any information you find for "MorphX" will bring up the Xbox 360 release, while there are subtle hints of it getting a PC release also. One example is a game called MorphX, which is a localization of a Russian game called "Symbiont". By this topic, I am referring to games that got PC versions/ports, but very little information about these games seem to exist.
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