If that game were made available on gog they would either do the work to make the version they sell launch on modern hardware or they would at least pack in the existing fan mods that do this work. This was partly born out of the number of old games you could buy on Steam that just won't even launch on modern PC hardware without at least installing mods or modifying game files in some manner.įor example, I own Street Fighter X Tekken on Steam which does not launch on modern PC hardware without mods. You're probably not going to be installing this game and just immediately playing it how you want, you'll probably need to tweak some settings.īasically gog used to stand for Good Old Games with their goal being to sell old games as well as take old games that no longer work on modern hardware and make them playable on modern hardware, DRM-free. Gog did the work to get this game running on modern hardware but the impetus is on the user to get the game running how they want it. You just need to know what you're getting into when you buy games like this from gog. They're not going to put something for sale that's a security risk to their customers. They're a very well established PC storefront. They've been around for years and are owned by the developer behind The Witcher games and Cyberpunk so gog isn't some unknown entity. Gog is not some fly-by-night operation, they know what they're doing and they research this stuff thoroughly. Also if you think all fan mods and patches are a security risk you must not play many PC games. To release these on Steam either Warner or Valve would need to do the work to make them available on there and that's not going to happen. But Warner is happy to make money for doing nothing. Which is important because if the impetus was on Warner to make these PC versions available… these PC versions wouldn't be available. I and many others have for a long time have wanted the OG PC versions of RE1-3 and SH2 & SH3 on gog but unfortunately it seems unlikely any of those will ever get released on gog.Ĭlick to shrink.No no no, they work with the publisher but basically with releases like this my understanding of how they work is: gog gets the publisher to sign off on making their game available on gog along with agreeing to whatever sales split and they get assets along with the game from the publisher but once that's all agreed upon gog kind of takes it from there and does all the heavy lifting. You want the original PC version of Street Fighter Alpha 2? That's available on gog. It's the bummer about gog as doing stuff like this is what gog was built on but they in recent years have mostly pivoted away from doing this and have just focused on releasing modern games on gog. And this is less of a port and more gog doing the work to make the original PC release of this game compatible with modern PCs (well, sometimes they do the work and sometimes they work with fans to utilize fan mods). Fightcade is also great though I haven't messed with that much so I'd guess some sort of compatibility for this game would need to be patched into Fightcade? Though while I haven't tested this myself I'd assume Parsec would probably be the way to go here? Maybe there's a potential issue there I'm not aware of but Parsec is generally a good way to go for stuff like this.
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