I never realized there were two versions of Sonic Spinball!

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TDIRunner:

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--- Quote from: Bear78 on November 27, 2017, 01:04:01 PM ---There's 3 different versions of Revenge of Shinobi

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That's wild. I wonder how often games were patched back in the time before the internet. These days it seems like every game that is released gets patched to fix bugs and exploits. I know the game code was a lot smaller back then, but there still had to have been game-breaking bugs in some old releases that had to be fixed.

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And there occasionally were, but most often it just meant you (the customer) were stuck with a busted game.

Turok Rage Wars comes to mind as an exception. Had a massive game-breaking glitch, and since it was a high profile game, Acclaim offered a fixed version for anyone who owned the game. Trouble is, back then the web isn't what it is today, so reaching those customers was tricky. But that's where the gray cart variant of Rage Wars came from; it's the corrected version.

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As an accountant, I can't help but think about the difference in cost in producing a replacement cart (especially an expensive N64 cart) to fix a bug compared to a downloadable patch for a modern game. Wow. :-\

Bear78:

--- Quote from: wiggy on November 27, 2017, 06:15:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: tylerbgood on November 27, 2017, 03:08:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bear78 on November 27, 2017, 01:04:01 PM ---There's 3 different versions of Revenge of Shinobi

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That's wild. I wonder how often games were patched back in the time before the internet. These days it seems like every game that is released gets patched to fix bugs and exploits. I know the game code was a lot smaller back then, but there still had to have been game-breaking bugs in some old releases that had to be fixed.

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And there occasionally were, but most often it just meant you (the customer) were stuck with a busted game.

Turok Rage Wars comes to mind as an exception. Had a massive game-breaking glitch, and since it was a high profile game, Acclaim offered a fixed version for anyone who owned the game. Trouble is, back then the web isn't what it is today, so reaching those customers was tricky. But that's where the gray cart variant of Rage Wars came from; it's the corrected version.

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A good amount of PS1 Greatest Hits got patched also. I know one of the Spyro's has a game breaking glitch that got patched in the GH version. A lot of the time, at least for PS1, the GH version is the better version of the game... just has that ugly green bar...

TDIRunner:
Gran Turismo 2 also has a glitch that makes it impossible to 100% the game. If you win and complete every race, the highest percentage you can achieve is somewhere around 98.5%. I believe it was fixed for later releases.

tylerbgood:

--- Quote from: TDIRunner on November 28, 2017, 12:20:06 PM ---Gran Turismo 2 also has a glitch that makes it impossible to 100% the game. If you win and complete every race, the highest percentage you can achieve is somewhere around 98.5%. I believe it was fixed for later releases.

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This reminds me of Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Both games are so incredibly glitchy on consoles. There are achievements in both that I was unable to get because of game bugs. I love those games dearly, but they're so much better on PC after installing the unofficial patches that fix the mountain of issues present in both. Oblivion also suffers from the same problem.

marioxb:

--- Quote from: Bear78 on November 28, 2017, 12:15:38 PM ---A good amount of PS1 Greatest Hits got patched also. I know one of the Spyro's has a game breaking glitch that got patched in the GH version. A lot of the time, at least for PS1, the GH version is the better version of the game... just has that ugly green bar...

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Silent Hill 2 GH on PS2 adds the extra stuff from the Xbox version. Someone told me some F1 game on PS1 has more stuff in GH. Even Nintendo did this with the Nintendo Selects Animal Crossing on 3DS adding Amiibo stuff.

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