Is there any information out there that might clarify? I'll admit I'm pretty ignorant about it, but it seems like the involved parties should just be able to come to a mutual agreement should they desire to/find an acceptable compromise. And if so, then it's a shame that did not happen.
Keeping in mind nobody outside of SEGA knows what the situation is (there's every possibility that it's will not instead of cannot, but I can't assume), but it can either be because the rights are tied up in a legal pretzel and all parties involved don't know how much stake they actually have or there's another party who cannot be contacted at all. We've personally had one game impossible to grab for a while because a party involved went completely off the grid to become a mountain man (or so I was told).
Funny thing about that, no console has a feature for custom soundtracks nowadays. I think the OG Xbox was the last one?
I believe it was possible to use custom soundtracks on the PS3. Tekken Tag 2 had the ability to read music stored on a USB drive. An in-game menu would appear to browse mp3 files and assign them to stages.
Allow me to fuel that fire even further lol
While I doubt it had much influence, I thought the same thing back when Origins was first announced.
It's good but I always preferred Flying Battery, Lava Reef, and Hydrocity, personally.
It's hard to say exactly what went down, being on the outside.
Frankly I don't see why anyone who's upset about this can't just mod the PC version.
Ooooh true, sonic jam would be the option! More reasons to use my saturn, the better.
Its kinda unfair to assume effort wasnt made, its almost certain that it was. I mean... you just need to look to other games which have licensed music (see Yakuza, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi) and I remember seeing comments at the time with regards to trying to relicense the music... sometimes you have a JSR situation where the devs commented that it was difficult getting the songs together, but they basically managed to get them all (a couple were missing, but considering how many were originally used, they did an admirable job), and a while back in 2017/8 when the early PS4 Yakuza games were FINALLY getting localised, one of the localisation team came on here to comment what a nightmare licensing the songs is for the legacy games - the contracts signed back when the songs were originally made make it too difficult, and most importantly, too expensive to relicense them for a new territory. Hence why large parts of Yakuza 5 and 6's soundtrack for cutscenes is gutted for sadly inferior tracks (which do affect the gravity of certain encounters and moments in the game).
