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"Region-free".
Sony claims that their PS3 is just that. And it is, as long as you have an HDTV, and there's no region lockout. And if you don't, many PAL games will sill work on an NTSC-U TV. Some don't. And there's no way to tell unless you try playing the game.
This has happened to me twice so far, with Folklore and The Sly Trilogy.
This has happened to me twice so far, with Folklore and The Sly Trilogy.
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As it stands, for me it breaks down like this:
Wii = nada, and also I hate the control scheme.
X-Box 360 = Has Oblivion and nothing else, and Oblivion was released for the PS3.
PS3 = Has Metal Gear Solid 4 and is soon going to have high-def versions of 2, 3 and Peace Walker. Also has Oblivion, an HD re-release of Shadow of the Colossus and a sequel to said game, and I might possibly want to play Demon's Souls one day.
I haven't actually invested in any of these consoles yet tho (too expensive currently), but the PS3 is more likely than any of them to be the one I get next.
* Wild ARMs 4
* ICO
* Radiata Stories
Right now there are five GC games I want to play, that I can think of off the top of my head:
* Metroid Prime
* Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
* Mega Man Network Transmission
* Zelda: Twilight Princess (true left-handed edition)
* Zelda: Ocarina of Time (because I don't want to get an N64...though now that the 3DS is out...)
Right now there is one PS3 game I want to play:
* Valkyria Chronicles
Right now there are two PSP games I want to play:
* Final Fantasy Tactics: the Lion War
* Castlevania: the Dracula X Chronicles
Right now there are four Saturn games I want to play:
* Mega Man 8
* Rockman Battle and Chase
* [Castlevania] Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight
* Magic Knight Rayearth
* Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
** maybe the other two but I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy owning them--but they do have damn good music.
* Mega Man ZX
* Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled
* Monster Tale
* Nostalgia
GBA:
* Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
* Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
* Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
** maybe Circle of the Moon but I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy owning it--but it does have damn good music.
* Golden Sun and Golden Sun: the Lost Age
* Metroid Fusion
* Metroid: Zero Mission
* Scurge: Hive (I own the DS version but the GBA version is better)
* Fire Emblem [the Blazing Sword]
* Fire Emblem: the Sacred Stones
* maybe Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: the Pumpkin King
Same goes with FFTA2; haven't decided on that one yet either.
Electroplankton for DS.
You sure? It'd probably be best to just play the original. The remake apparently suffers from pretty bad slowdown a lot of the time, and while the original script did have some hilariously bad translation errors, most of the actual dialogue was decent enough. And from what I've seen I'd probably prefer the original translation over the remake's.
Does the 3DS edition also include the Master Quest? If so, then yeah I would go for that. I've heard the Gamecube edition suffers from slowdown.
Is there any reason you particularly want the Saturn versions when (except for Magic Knight Rayearth) these are all available on some other console?
* Mega Man 8 features Wood Man and Cut Man.
* The Saturn version of SotN features extra areas and music as well as an extra playable character.
* I don't know of Battle and Chase being available for any other system.
It's available in the Mega Man X Collection for both Gamecube and PS2.
They didn't port the game, they just programmed an emulator and have it running a ROM.
The problem with emulators though is that they're basically a computer inside a computer, so a lot of the resources are being used just to make the Gamecube pretend its an N64.
Computer emulators used to have the same problem. I had a Pentium that would choke playing SNES games, even though it was three times as powerful as the actual SNES. Of course, today's super-fast computers can play these things no problem.... but systems like the PS2 still give coders problems for exactly this reason.