Wednesday 22 April 2020

Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures Hack Your System And/Or Use Emulators!

Well when you are away from home and stuck during lockdown. You only have your switch, so what do I do? Hack it and play Koudelka on an emulator. Or maybe I should've played Super Mario Maker 2 instead! XD


It actually looks pretty good on the switch, performs almost perfectly except for some battle animation moves but with increasing the clock speed slightly for a small boost it does help a tiny bit.
Overall fully playable and if you take away some of the sharp edges and smooth them out, it would have looked really good where I probably could have fooled someone into thinking that it is legit on the switch!

We all probably know emulators for pc like epsxe or retroarch that plays Koudelka perfectly and pcsx2 for ps2 games for playing the shadow hearts games. Speaking of which back in February the judgement ring glitch has finally been fixed as seen here sadly it has not been talked or taken advantage of as much as it should! We can also play ps2 games on ps3 (backwards compatible) too.
What I find the most maybe lets say disappointing and maybe even controversial for us SH fans, is if your ps4 is on firmware 5.05 you can use hacks and play ps2 games by injecting a game into a ps2 classic as seen here it brings that question: Is it that easy? Granted the first two SH games currently do not work this way. To find the right configuration or for sony to update their ps2 ps4 emulation software would be needed. What seen from that video is what an official product would be like, so why not Universal Entertainment? Release the games as psn classics officially PLEASE!

Regarding Koudelka's seemingly cancelled steam release. I have looked at what ConsoleClassics had published on steam which almost all were originally ps1 games. They used an opened sourced emulator pcsx r and adapt it with a loader settings and maybe other changes then have it as a package on steam. It is legal for them to do this, as long as they release the source code for each game they published which they have. It is strange they just stopped doing this because surely releasing games like Koudelka, D and more would make money especially if they have the ips or the very least have deals to do so. It just seemed strange they released games like Actua Golf 3... okay... Not saying not to release games like that but maybe start with ones that need a steam release.

Also if you have previously missed I posted about Koudelka: here
I have updated the post and will continue to do so if I come across any more information or if ConsoleClassics replies, potently very interesting...
Also if you know anything about them please let me know! Many thanks! :)

*Important Update*
From what I have read Urbanscan are behind consoleclassics they bought various ip from companies which is strange and brings the question does Urbanscan own Koudelka ip? It is a bit messy....

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