Capcom: Mega Man Legends can't come to PSN due to licensing

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Yeah todays games are never going to similar services in the future. Too many toolkits, shared IP, and labor agreements.

I think its silly you need to relicense everything in an old game to rerelease it :/

Whoa. That picture is like a fist of memories punching my face of a brain.

Wait, what?

Why not just remake it in hd. I'd buy it.

If the main issue is the voice acting, you would think they coulod just re-record them.

So just release it sans voiceovers. It's not like the voice acting was good anyway.

I'd just like the hold-out parties to be outed whether officially or by way of a leak.

We still may not get our games but at least we'd be able to let those people/companies know that they can eat a big fat one.

@SteveMcQuark

That's about how I'm reading it.

I like games to stay true to their original forms but what would stop them from releasing it on PSN and XBLA as a remake w/ new voice acting?
Money? Would it not be a good investment? I can't speak for everyone else but I would buy it

@SteveMcQuark

It's not that easy. the re-release may not make enough back to justify it, the license may be too expensive, or it may just be impossible to track the companies/holders down, as they could have gone out of business.

Aww well this sucks balls!

Man, it's a great thing I still own a ps2 and the game ^_^

I have Part 1 on disc still :D and im so glad PS3 can playback PS1 games. i still wish i had legends 2 though :\

So Mega Man Legends has become Capcom's Earthbound?

Whaa?

heheh, apple market...

@SteveMcQuark

Wow, one very recent example. What a history they have.

I'm finding this pretty unacceptable. Capcom should've figured this crap out long before they decided they were going to do work on a 3rd game in the series. If they work around the legal BS and get these re-released, they could effectively bring in a whole new generation of MML fans that are excited for the new game. There are plenty of people who are going to be (and have been previously) interested who have never played a MML game in their life, and will now possibly never have the chance. Capcom always complains about MML not having stellar sales in the US, and not re-releasing the old games to hype up the great looking new one is just going to kill it off once and for all.

That Sucks would have loved to play them before 3.
I guess I could track them down on Ebay but they go for pretty high prices, if their complete.

While i'm here i'll post my mandatory post

Capcom I want a new dino crisis

Can't they just repurpose the Geohot lawyers and make it happen?

@Acosta02 Well, I suppose there was also Dead Rising Case 0 and Case West, but those were pretty awesome blackmails that I would mind being blackmailed again for. So yeah, moot argument.

@(Unverified)

I, too, view a release of Megaman Legends as the equivalent of the love of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being and would gladly watch a man die to get it.

ah thats too bad. i remember watching my cousin play the first one as a kid and always wanted to give them a shot.

I'd be way more bent out of shape about this if I didn't own both Mega Man Legends 1 & 2, plus The Misadventures of Tron Bonne.

"Part of us totally understands, but another part of us just wishes they'd get some super-lawyers and figure this thing out."

Super-lawyers?..... HOLD IT!

reminds me of watching my brother beat SotN on XBLA, and not hearing 'I am the Wind' during the credits.... :(

Yeeeeah, suuuure, make the long awaited sequel for a 3d-capable make-up kit and leave any loyal fan high and dry. I never had the chance to play even one of the original ones because I never found them (neither did I know that they existed for some time) here in Greece! Why not make an HD remake for a bundle? Oh, yeah, sorry I forgot, it's not like releasing a Super Tournament Arcade edition of an existing game.

I don't know what it is about the Legends series in particular, but Capcom is freaking TERRIFIED of it. It took about twelve years for them to even consider a trilogy ender (which, I must mention, hasn't even been officially green-lit for production), and although they've re-released the first two titles on the PSP (exclusively in Japan), they claim "oh, we can't figure it out, so eff it." Literally the only things it can possibly be at this point are re-licensing the classical music for the western release or (most likely) whatever licensing deals they had worked out wiith the voice actors in the past not being valid anymore.

I don't understand why they can't just skip over that step and just give us the Japanese PSP ports with Japanese voice acting and English subtitles. At this point, I think English-speaking MegaMan Legends fans who don't still have the games or can't get ahold of them will probably take what they can get, as sad as that sounds. But Capcom just doesn't want to do it.

Look, Capcom, you guys are professionals in the art of squeezing extra money out of your consumers. Do you want our money or not? These games aren't new; the only work to be done to make additional money off of them is to figure out ways around your licensing issues. It is literally money waiting to be made.

Until then, Amazon and eBay are but a click away.

@SteveMcQuark
Prototype version isn't blackmail either, it's part of the whole idea of the games development. They are making it for feedback purposes, hence why the Dev Room exists on Capcom-Unity. It's a BETA. Is the Gears of War 3 Beta blackmail? No, it's a resource for the developers to get feedback from and help improve the game.

Mega Man Legends 3's whole development process is being done with the fans in mind, and what better way to do it than to have the fans help out themselves?

Custom firmware for the win. That's all I'll say.