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Why Shadwen Won't Be Backwards Compatible on PS5
- Thread starter Loudninja
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Thanks for sharing. Source is Push Square: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/10/why_shadwen_wont_be_backwards_compatible_on_ps5
Also relevant, TT Isle of Man 2 will be patched: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/202...ll_receive_ps5_backwards_compatibility_update
Also relevant, TT Isle of Man 2 will be patched: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/202...ll_receive_ps5_backwards_compatibility_update
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It happens, they don't really seem that angry about it, they just let go.
I didn't know TT Isle of Man 2 was being patched, that's cool!
I didn't know TT Isle of Man 2 was being patched, that's cool!
maybe in the end Shadwen will be the lone title not backwards compatible with PS5 lol
I hope Hitman Go does something like this. It is the one game out of the list that I like.
That'd be crazy impressive.
I was honestly expecting something like 40 games to not be playable and never would be playable. Less than 10 is crazy impressive.
Also includes PS2 on PS4 games, which is another thing I wasn't sure about.
Uhh, how technical do you need exactly? They at least explain part of the reason is because its on an older version of their engine that they don't use anymore. There'd have to be incentive for them to investigate further, which doesn't seem to be there.
Do Sony have flags they can set which emulates the original PS4 load times? I remember it was a problem in the PS1 and PS2 backward compatibility where some games would crash during load if the read speed was too fast, so there was a toggle for the load speed in the options.
There are almost 3000 games in this list: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_PlayStation_4_games
Some might be missing, but with this update we would be at only 9 non-compatible games officially, which would put the percentage in 0.3%.
EDIT: haha sorry, I was not answering to you, I answered to the wrong comment in the wrong thread! Well, at any case, here's the math for this thread lol
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DWVR will also be compatible with PS5:
I just started replaying Shadow Complex Remastered just because it's on the list, lol.
I don't "need" anything, I'm just curious. BC is supposed to be entirely baked in at the hardware level, guaranteeing that the games will work. Which means the ones that don't work are probably doing some weird shit behind the scenes that just happened to work on PS4, and I'm curious what it is. Such-and-such a memory call at such-and-such a time, storing such-and-such a weird data bit in the L2 cache that shouldn't be there, and PS5 balks because such-and-such an architecture difference, whatever.
What they're describing is the symptom, not the cause. "It doesn't work because we tried it and it didn't work."
Because they're two completely different systems. The bug could be for any number of different reasons.
Because they are two different systems, with different hardware and different OSs.
If I had to bet, they do some kind of unusual syscall to the OS that is not correctly processed anymore with PS5's OS.
Interestingly, I know this dev but have never heard of this game. Still good of them to get ahead of this.
That Afro Samurai game was so terrible and broken that they pulled it from sale and refunded everyone for it. Aint nobody patching that lol
I don't think we'll ever get a clear answer as it would require putting in time to debug, but it could be an issue with the super fast SSD and non-standard priority lanes or something.
We don't even have a list of games not working on Series consoles as Phil never said all games will work day one.
Never got to play this but tbh I was just looking at screenshots and I would've given this a try had I known about it and not sold my ps4. Doesn't seem to be on Xbox.
Same, just booted it up to knock it off the backlog. I assume the Mustards are too busy with Fortnite to bother, but then again Epic might surprise us.
They likely do not know why and do not have the resources to investigate.
They don't know why and don't want to use resources to investigate. The engine is old and not worth the cost to fix.
I'm not sure who, if anyone, would be able to update that. Square-Enix don't have the Hitman rights anymore and the game was made by SE Montreal.
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Yeah, Hitman Go seems to be in a particular weird limbo, because it's listed in Square Enix's site, but nowhere in the IOI site, so maybe IOI can't do anything with it at the moment.
Also, it was done by Square Enix Montreal, not Eidos Montreal (they're different studios lol)