Wild.Dog: That's an good example MGS Master Collection.
It's just that a collection but some people was like
"OMG WHY NO 4K INTERNAL RESOLUTION FOR MGS 1!!!! DUCKSTATION CAN DO THAT FOR FREEEEEE!!!! DAMMMM YOUUUU KONAMIIII"
From a perspective of keeping old software alive this is good, keep it like it was.
HeavilyAugmented: The MGS1 Master Collection is a terrible example to cite when that's an EMULATED version of MGS1, not a port or preservation of another version. In other words, comparisons to Duckstation are valid in a case like that because it's emulation you have to set up vs emulation out of the box, but it's $20 for a subpar experience.
Regardless of that, RE1 is a mediocre "preservation" attempt on GOG's part considering that despite their efforts to improve the experience, they introduced new bugs that people have been complaining about on these forums such as the acceleration bug. The fact Aydan and Gemini are on these forums discussing solutions that GOG themselves will now be putting into a hotfix next week is the embarrassing cherry on top.
Maybe I'm not giving GOG the benefit of the doubt, but they really should've negotiated harder with Capcom to make REBirth an optional install of this release along with the original version, because outside of wanting to support more DRM-Free releases from Capcom, there is no reason to drop money on this version when the abandonware version is the better experience after some basic modding. At the very least, they should bother trying to haggle with Capcom to let the Sourcenext versions of 2/3 be a download option with the US version they're modifying so people don't have to take an extra step to make their version compatible with REBirth.
What do you mean is not preservation, Konami gave you a faithful PSX version of a classic game.
The experience you get from the MGS1 from the master collection is what you would have seen back in 99. Pretty much preserving the game in it's original form.
4K support, widescreen, high res textures, that's not preservation, that's modding or remaster if done by the owner.
It's called MGS MASTER COLLECTION, Not Remaster collection.
Is it perfect? No, but it was more polished that many AAA games and they fixed most of the issues.
What GOG did release is very faithful to what we got in 1997, minus the bug that are part of the wrapper used. Which could be used.
That's why i find funny when some folks talk about preservation as way to defend emulation, but when the company that owns the IP release a faithful version of the product they are trying to "preserve" they cry it doesn't have 4k support ultrawide support and doesn't come with a random mode done by a third party.
In the end the message people sends to company is
"We don't want preservation, we want a remaster version that's uber polished, but we don't want to pay more than 10 bucks for it".
Like i said, just take a look at star wars dark forces remaster.. People went nuts because it was 35, when that game had a lot of work done by nightdive.
