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May 29, 2012 07:32 AM |
Anyone still on the fence about the Silent Hill HD collection (or convinced it's "just like the originals or better"):
Silent Hill HD Collection ported from unfinished code - Eurogamer
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Silent Hill HD Collection was ported from incomplete code, Konami has revealed.
Developer Hyjinx was forced to work with buggy code because Konami lost the final release version of the game, senior associate producer Tomm Hulett told 1up.
"We got all the source code that Konami had on file - which it turns out wasn't the final release version of the games!
"During debug we didn't just have to deal with the expected 'porting' bugs, but also had to squash some bugs that the original team obviously removed prior to release, but we'd never seen before."
He added: "I think at one point [Silent Hill 3 protagonist] Heather was blue."
Hulett blamed poor archiving for this impediment. "10 years ago, a lot of game companies assumed the games were 'done' once development finished, and that they wouldn't need to use that data ever again.
"Now it's clear that having all that data in an easy-to-manage format is important."
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