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I dropped the final masters for MGS and TK3 off today at the
facility myself.
There was a last-minute issue with MGS for the Japanese versions, and instead of
holding up everyone on the planet any longer, we've decided to go ahead and
master MGS for US/Canada/Europe seperately from the Japanese versions.
There are a total of 13 versions (five for Japan, three for US/Canada, and five
for Europe) -- and a change at this point would require retesting ALL versions
completely if we held up the build.
The net effect is pretty minimal to the vast majority of people on the planet:
Japanese versions of MGS, including Integral, will NOT be compatible with the
b!DC MGS pak for US/Canada/Europe -- although the disc WILL run on Japanese
machines for people who imported any of the foreign versions.
Similarly, the Japanese b!DC MGS pak will NOT be compatible with
US/Canada/Europe, although it WILL run on any DC to support people who have
purchased the Japanese import version.
For obvious reasons, we will NOT be releasing a combined MGS that works with ALL
worldwide versions -- after all, how many versions of MGS do *YOU* have?
This isn't our first choice (or second... or third...), but it seems to us to be
the fairest way of handling an unexpected issue for the greatest number of
people out there -- A minority of people outside of Japan have the
Japanese-specific version, and the majority of our market isn't in Japan.
Mastering for BOTH titles (MGS and TK3) should be complete by mid-to-late next
week, and manufacturing will begin immediately after. Manufacturing is VERY
quick, and usually requires three-to-four days for finished packages.
Direct online sales should begin early next week -- David's done an INCREDIBLE
job on the website! -- and shipping will begin as soon as we have finished
packages to ship!
Full details will be posted on the web in the next few days once the production
has started -- we've still got a few things to handle as far as the production
run goes, and updating the website has to come second to getting the product out
to the people who've been waiting for so damn long.
In the end, the wait will have been worthwhile...
MGS is an excellent game in itself, but with b!DC and the Dreamcast, I believe
it finally lives up to what the designers had originally intended the MGS
experience to be.
TK3 is, as it always has been, a PSX classic that gets new life on the
Dreamcast, and offers the same high-speed gameplay and action that PSX owners
have enjoyed for years.
It's a shame that it's taken us this long to finally get the steam built up in
the engine to move things along quickly here -- but with some luck, and
hopefully some major support from the public, we're going to do our absolute
best to breathe some new life into the DC and show people what they've been
missing out on.
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