I would love to play this on my pc please if you can gog bring it to PC

I would like to suggest this to steam as well but I dont know how.

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=breath%20of%20fire

Wouldn't they have to get the go-ahead from Nintendo for the first two and Sony for the others? If Wikipedia can be trusted, Breath of Fire IV had a PC port, but the others would probably be a nightmare.

That said, I'd buy the hell out of Breath of Fire 2. Already have the cartridge for the SNES and GBA versions. Amazing game.

You are of course counting on Capcom giving a damn about GOG.

Oh, right. Capcom. Where hope goes to die. So it's impossible, then.

Why Nintendo and Sony? Nintendo own games that they developed themselves, such as Zelda and Mario, but as far as I'm aware Capcom is the sole rightsholder for the Breath of Fire games.

That said, I agree about Breath of Fire 2's amazingness. It's nearly the best JRPG of its era (can't top Chrono Trigger though)

I could swear I read somewhere that systems like the SNES and PS1 require bios to function that still belong to the owners of the systems that the games were originally on, but I really have no idea if that's accurate or not.

So you'd put BoF2 in your number 2 spot, then? I don't know—I love it to death, but Lufia 2 is a masterpiece. Totally agree about CT, though. That's the old console game I'd want to make a reappearance more than anything, especially if it used the old translation. None of that new translation crap that they pulled in the DS version.

I'm going to say you're wrong. Yes a BIOS is required to run the games, but they aren't included WITH the games. Not every game you buy includes a DirectX installer and thus are partially owned by Microsoft. Rather the BIOS is merely required to run the hardware; The game just runs on top of it using a public API. If you don't have the API, the game can't run, but you can write something to interpret those API calls and run just fine (assuming they are compatible).

That's good news, then, though I have to wonder why so few older console games are available on the PC if that's the case. The big pack of SEGA ones is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, and it seems like a no-brainer since those titles aren't making any money anymore (or a tiny bit, in the case of titles that are on Nintendo and Playstation's stores).

I had already ask GOG to bring old consoles games, and their response is

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there are certain complications with using console games on PC. The emulations are still a gray area from a legal point of view and the architecture of the systems differs so much that it is not possible to, for example, emulate a PS3 game yet. So while we may think about it in the future, I am afraid we now have to stick to the native PC games. Not until we run out of the titles, and that's a long road before us.
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So I bought breath of fire 3 & 4 play station disk through E-Bay, then play the emulated version on my PC.

Hmmm i'd call BS. But from a legal standpoint i understand they'd rather not step up and get in front of a firing squad. They don't want to take risks in a gray area unless they get total permission from the game devs in question. Not to mention half the time emulators appear, they get squashed by the competitors, Bleem for example.


Yes the architecture is completely different, but perhaps using something similar to PCSX2 where it does dynamic re-compiling of games to native code, you could do similarly on PSX/SNES/Megadrive games and save the output as full native exe files. The hardest part would be the timing, which i'm sure wouldn't be too hard to put every so many instructions a wait call until a minimum of ms pass making the timing just about perfect, or if the games include an auto wait for refreshes you can just have it wait on those

Although games like on the Atari2600 had no such timing and were refreshed something like every 73 cycles... So it might get hairy if any of the systems use that type of trickery...

Ah, I see what you mean. As far as I know Nintendo started building in firmware from the N64 onward, so SNES should be clear. Programming a SNES is very bare-metal - all code that runs is on the cardridge itself.

For consoles that require firmware that will need to be either licensed or clean-room reverse-engineered.

Really.

You could try tweeting Tim Turi (previously of Game Informer/Super Replay guy), who recently got a job at Capcom, (though he's focused on Resident Evil now) and see what he says.