![]() ![]() It’s mind-boggling how Sony licensed Resident Evil: Director’s Cut from Capcom and not Street Fighter Alpha 3. While Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Grand Theft Auto, and Oddworld: Abe’s World helped round out the library, noticeably missing were console-defining franchises like Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, and Gran Turismo. ![]() These titles gave gamers a false sense of optimism, believing that the full library would consist of more bangers. The mediocre library and choppy frame rates hurt the most.Īt first, Sony announced five games as a teaser, and they were good games, for the most part: Final Fantasy VII, Ridge Racer Type 4, Tekken 3, Wild Arms, and Jumping Flash. Or how about the option to use other controllers? Or the fact that the console doesn’t come with a power adapter? Controllers with analog sticks would have been nice for playing 3D games (the D-pad just doesn’t cut it), especially since the PlayStation Classic cost $100 at launch. I could go on for days about what Sony could have done better. The 20 included games were not the greatest hits gamers were expecting. The PlayStation Classic? Hacking it is the only way to salvage it from being a useless paperweight. Though it’s possible to hack other mini retro consoles, you really don’t need to modify them because they already have a solid library of gems. (We don’t condone piracy and when we refer to adding more games, we’re talking about legally adding them to the extent that the law allows for it wherever you live.) The Eris hack can also fix those games running at a lower frame rate. With the simple Project Eris hack (formerly BleemSync) from the Mod My Classic team, not only can you add more PS1 games (like the ones it should have come with), but it’s powerful enough to run Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast games, too. But like so much unloved tech, modders and hackers have come in clutch, rescuing Sony’s dud and transforming it into one of the best mini retro consoles you can buy in my opinion. Within a few weeks, PlayStation Classics were discounted by as much as half, with heaps of them literally in bargain bins. Gamers like myself were beyond excited to replay classic PS1 games, but instead of a greatest hits throwback, the PlayStation Classic arrived with a lackluster library of 20 games (no Crash, no Spyro, no Tony Hawk – the list goes on) and - get this - they ran with subpar emulation at a lower frame rate. ![]() It was Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s smash hit, the NES Classic, released two years earlier. While the international version still received critical acclaim for its gameplay and graphics, the decision to remove most of the plot was heavily criticized by Western critics and gamers, since Namco initially advertised that the Western release would featured all the content seen in Japanese version.In December 2018, Sony caved into the mini retro console craze with the PlayStation Classic. To accommodate for the Japanese plot not being translated, all story related voice acting and cut-scenes were removed, along with the plot being rewritten to a more basic story with no voice acting. While Namco never officially explained why this occurred, many speculated it was due to sales being lower than expected for the Japanese release, along with the impending release of the PlayStation 2. English voice acting was planned and started recording in the early stages, but Namco cut the funding for the translation efforts. While nothing was changed from the overall gameplay, its campaign was stripped down to a 1-disc 36 mission campaign with no branching paths. It also featured fully voiced anime cut-scenes, along with in-game radio chatter.The international version of Ace Combat 3 was released in 2000. The Japanese version of Ace Combat 3 released in 1999 featured a lengthy 2-disc campaign of 52 missions that were split among different paths depending on in-mission decisions, along with multiple endings and multiple factions for the player to join. The third installment in the Ace Combat series of console flight simulation games, Electrosphere takes the contemporary setting of the first two games into a story set in the mid-21st century, involving a war between multinational corporations.The game is notable for having two radically different releases for the Japanese and Western markets. Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (エースコンバット3 エレクトロスフィア, Ēsu Conbatto San Erekutorosufia) is a flight simulation game made by Namco for the PlayStation game console. ![]()
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