Sony Wants Your Help Bringing PSone Games To European PSN

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Sony Wants Your Help Bringing PSone Games To European PSN



Remember that PSone game you always wanted but was never released in your territory? Well, Sony wants your input about what games it should bring to the European PSN.

Games that are never released outside of their original countries are often the bane of gamers. While region-locked titles aren't quite as common as they used to be, there are still a number of PSone games that never made it to Europe after they were first put out in Japan and/or North America. However, that's about to change.

A new post on the PlayStation Blog revealed that a number of games are being brought over to the European PSN, but it didn't announce what titles were going to appear. Instead, Sony asked for readers to provide suggestions for what games to include, and the company would then talk to the publishers of the most-requested titles about possibly releasing them in Europe.

Aside from being published "as is" with either English or Japanese languages (depending on availability), the titles will reportedly run at 60 Hz, Sony had the following to say:

"If a PAL version of a title has been unable to pass QA in SCEE, but the NTSC version is already available on the PlayStation Store in SCEA or SCEJ, we can look at publishing that version instead.

"We cannot simply take the US version and publish it immediately, as it has to be reprocessed for SCEE, but at least we know the title should already be relatively bug-free.

"Please note: This does not mean we can publish titles that have not legally cleared for release in SCEE territories as a result of expired licenses, etc."

So, if you're over in Europe and have been dying to play a game that wasn't originally available in your territory, it sounds like this is your chance to change this.

What games are you planning to request?

Source: <a href=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-01-us-japan-only-psone-games-coming-to-psn>PlayStation Blog via <a href=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-01-us-japan-only-psone-games-coming-to-psn>Eurogamer

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HandsomeZer0

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Does the SCEE come under australian PSN as well? Because i've been totally needing a dragon valor/rising zan fix for awhile.
 

Dr.Susse

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I've just asked for Parasite eve 1.

I'll be a happy chappy if I ever get to finally play it.
[small]Oh I forgot Tombi! Back to the web site![/small]
 

HandsomeZer0

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Does SCEE come under australia as well? Cos if so gex deep cover gekko/rising zan/dragon valor and medievil 2 need life!
 

T-Bone24

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Spyro the Dragon. All of 'em. From what I remember, I had a lot of fun with those, and I want to revisit at least one of them.
 

sb666

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parasite eve 1 lunar silver star and lunar enternal blue chorono cross chorono triger all the resident evil games and silent hill 1
 

Cowabungaa

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Most definitely Legend of Mana. I'm usually not one for JRPG's, but that game is one of the pinnacles of 2D art design. Pretty much every screenshot I've seen from it so far were just drop-dead gorgeous. From what I've heard it's also not your average JRPG in terms of gameplay.

*tips hat to Onyx_Oblivion* Thanks for the recommendation, now if Sony just cooperates...
 

vansau

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Europe got Bishi Bashi Special... I'm so envious of you people ATM.
 

DanielBrown

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T-Bone24 said:
Spyro the Dragon. All of 'em. From what I remember, I had a lot of fun with those, and I want to revisit at least one of them.
They are already on PSN afaik. Checked a while ago and decided that I'd buy them. Then the PSN went down... 8D
It's possible that I was on my US-user though.
 

Leonhart321

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SpiderJerusalem said:
Chrono Cross, oh please mighty Zeus, let them release Chrono Cross.
I don't even have a PS3 but THIS THIS A THOUSAND TIMES THIS. I can always steal-er, borrow my brother's one :p
 

Treblaine

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They haven't even gotten round to giving a PSN release to all the PSOne games that actually had an EU release:

-Tomb Raider 2
-Ghost in the Shell
-Symphony of the Night
-Silent Bomber
-Fear Effect
-Colony Wars
 

Sonicron

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Maybe they should start by getting the NTSC-to-PAL conversion process right, and actually include the option to download all games in multiple languages regardless of user location - being stuck with region-specific translations in an age of digital distribution is a fucking joke.
 

Radelaide

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Australian PSN: Crash Bandicoot. I'm sick of playing it on the Xperia Play at work so gimme it in high-def deliciousness!
 

Dr.Susse

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Radelaide said:
Australian PSN: Crash Bandicoot. I'm sick of playing it on the Xperia Play at work so gimme it in high-def deliciousness!
I've got a feeling that it's on there along with 2 & 3. (Aussie as well)