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Truly Weird Stuff Showing Up in Steam Database (Halo, KOF13, other unlikely stuff)
- Thread starter Stumpokapow
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
If they listed it as Half Life 2: Episode 3, that would be the most amazing troll.
Downsampled from 3840 x 2160 to 1920x1080, apparently. Too bad the ones on the website are pretty heavily compressed JPEGs...
How is KOF13 "unlikely?"
The arcade version of the game ran on a PC. Some shady Asians already hacked out the game's protection and pirates have been playing it for two years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGs1t6sVH8g
Basically, if it's a recent arcade game, it's probably on PC hardware, and it would require very little effort to get working on Windows.
The arcade version of the game ran on a PC. Some shady Asians already hacked out the game's protection and pirates have been playing it for two years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGs1t6sVH8g
Basically, if it's a recent arcade game, it's probably on PC hardware, and it would require very little effort to get working on Windows.
Like Gabe would ever let them do that =p
Wow very interesting. I suppose it works due to theater mode is just ruining game code and not rendered footage so as long as it's a still image the resolution can be bumped up. Shows how good some of the assets hold up as well. Can't imagine what Bungie could have done if Halo 3 was on PC back when it released.
No, like Battle Fantaia, Power Instinct 5, and Chaos Breakers
KoF XIII is a nice start though.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
http://cdr.xpaw.ru/app/72790/
prey 2 -- database entry has been there for a while, but the site just updated with the community hub link today
prey 2 -- database entry has been there for a while, but the site just updated with the community hub link today
Upscaling a non-motion frame seems possible for the xbox to do. Or was it that sceenshots were rendered in the cloud, I don't remember.
Edit:
Oh it was rendered on the box and then uploaded.
What kinda of resolution is that?
Bungie used to have a system that would allow you to request their servers to render your replay files into video, so you could create clips even if you didn't have a capture card.
The screenshot tool renders images locally.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Halo 3 screens came out as shit-tastic jpegs which made them useless for literally everything.
Guess beyond3D was wrong on that one...but yeah the jpeg compression is horrible, only give about 300kb for a 1080p image.
This was an explanation, but I guess it's wrong.
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1072168&postcount=467
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
The update dates are wrong. Death Tank has been in there forever and I know it's been canceled. Same goes for Retro/Grade.
ahh yes thank you.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Just to clarify; the reason the update dates are today is because it's just today the the registry viewing tool has begun linking community hub page names to ValveTestApp entries. The entries themselves are older, it's the Community Hub linking step that's new. And then if you see a date that's older than today but still newer than it should be, it's because this particular site only started tracking a while ago. Admittedly this gives a false impression that all of this is new stuff, when in reality some of it is old stuff, it's just newly discovered.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Since Homefront 2 is just Crytek now (no pub atm) I wonder if they will stick with Steamworks. I hope they do.
Unfortunately, it's not just the website. They're tiny jpegs locally on the 360 as well. Probably some obnoxious Microsoft file storage rule thingy.
I wish I had a good capture setup; I wonder if you could get good results by capturing the image as the tiling finishes but before the "save screenshot" menu covers it up.
Reagan's BR
Banned
PLEASE! The mods would be awesome.
vasametropolis
Member
Would buy all three halo games again if they came to Steam.
I see no need to not release these games on PC after a few years. It has its terrific run on consoles, then it comes to PC for a second wave a couple of years later. To me it always made sense to do this, but maybe I'm wrong...
Anyways, it gives hope we might see all of them eventually. They may be late, but getting them is nice. A PC is the best place to collect games like this as well, because you can always go back and play them years later.
People on GAF always gave me hell and said this idea would destroy Xbox and nobody would buy an Xbox anymore. I'd love for this to turn out so I can get some conviction!
I see no need to not release these games on PC after a few years. It has its terrific run on consoles, then it comes to PC for a second wave a couple of years later. To me it always made sense to do this, but maybe I'm wrong...
Anyways, it gives hope we might see all of them eventually. They may be late, but getting them is nice. A PC is the best place to collect games like this as well, because you can always go back and play them years later.
People on GAF always gave me hell and said this idea would destroy Xbox and nobody would buy an Xbox anymore. I'd love for this to turn out so I can get some conviction!
legacyzero
Banned
Microsoft finally bowing down to their Steam overlords?? I'd LOVE to see more of the MS Exclusives on PC. Forza belongs there =/
List looks mostly legit to me. Some of those are already announced, others are pretty straight forward and logical (Cut the Rope, Angry Birds etc).
Only real outliers to me are the Halo games, 2 of which are already on PC anyway. It seems like a win to me for Microsoft. There is money to be made from selling those games on Steam were that money wouldn't otherwise be there.
I'd buy 'em. I'll be disappointed now if this turns out to be BS.
Only real outliers to me are the Halo games, 2 of which are already on PC anyway. It seems like a win to me for Microsoft. There is money to be made from selling those games on Steam were that money wouldn't otherwise be there.
I'd buy 'em. I'll be disappointed now if this turns out to be BS.
I have a couple questions:
Is this game's journalism? Where do they people who find this stuff work? You should get paid to make these kind of discoveries is what I'm saying.
Are there community pages for any non-steam game showing up in the registry in any other way?
Has anything every shown up on the registry and not come out?
Can anyone think of another example of a huge console exclusive (like Halo) being released on Steam?
Is there an average or typical amount of time that happens between something showing up on the registry and being released?
Is this game's journalism? Where do they people who find this stuff work? You should get paid to make these kind of discoveries is what I'm saying.
Are there community pages for any non-steam game showing up in the registry in any other way?
Has anything every shown up on the registry and not come out?
Can anyone think of another example of a huge console exclusive (like Halo) being released on Steam?
Is there an average or typical amount of time that happens between something showing up on the registry and being released?
Would be a fantasy come true, but I'm not holding my breath.
Alan Wake comes to mind.
vasametropolis
Member
I will gladly hold my breath! Choo choo hype train.
I'd buy the shit out of a Halo collection on Steam if it released. I feel like a packaged trilogy edition would sell like hotcakes.
D
Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
Damn, could this mean that the countdown is actually real? Great find, Stump!
ColonelColon
Member
Alan Wake probably doesn't qualify as huge, but it was released in 2012 on PC after being exclusive to Xbox 360 for almost 2 years.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Holy shit.
Alright then. No wonder the image is so sharp and there is no visable aliasing.
Yes.
Plenty of titles have shown up on the Registry and never came out.
Final Fantasy 7 & 8 are great examples of this, but this happens every once in a while. The vast majority of the time, if they are on the registry, they are scheduled to be released.
Isn't 2 considered by many to be the best? lol
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
A few people have found what they think are cancelled projects. I think that's quite easy to believe (I mean, pretty clearly, a Steam Registry entry typically means that a game is intended to be released and that the process of putting it on Steam is beginning--whether or not it actually releases could easily be subject to external factors), but I wonder why cancelled projects would have a Community Hub name; Community Hubs weren't added until August/September 2012.
Edit: Looks like it was only added to the registry at all in November 2012, so I'd guess that it's probably not cancelled
Edit 2: By contrast, Marble Blast Ultra has a Community Hub name but has been in the registry for several years and is definitely canceled.
Edit: The Halo 3 entry was originally added (sans-Community Hub info, naturally) in July 2012.
That registry entry was updated recently and I think I remember Deep Silver teasing something about it a while ago.
EDIT: here you go, game is still in development, news soon:
http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/30/3933344/ride-to-hell-still-in-development
Nabs
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