sega arcade games on pc engine

[link64]

As some of you may know a lot of segas arcade games were released on the pc engine (and lot of them were apparantly better apart from golden axe) since hudson apparantle gained the rights to do so does any one know if hudson is still able to release them.

[kelvingreen]

I'd imagine that the rights situation is horribly complicated. And seeing as Sega and Nintendo are best buddies now, I'd guess that means that Sega will be getting their versions onto VC over Hudson's.

[link64]

well they put out dragons curse which is basicly Wonder Boy III The Dragons Trap so i think its possible.

[kelvingreen]

The difference there is that those games, while basically the same as the Wonder Boy series, were changed enough that they're not the same games (different sprites, etc). But that wouldn't be the case with most of the coin-op conversions.

[link64]

wonder boy 3 the arcade game was also released on the pc engine in its original form

http://www.pcengine.co.uk/

you have to go on the the wonder boy 3 page since I could not get it to go there directly.

[kelvingreen]

Well, there you go! I stand corrected.

[RMA]

...or not. Wonder Boy was actually developed by West One I think, and the games were able to be ported as they not Sega own the actual game code? I could be wrong...

[iNma]

The developer owned the game code, but not the license to the characters and property. That's why wonderboy games kept appearing on the TG-16 with different names and characters (Dragon's Curse, Dragon's Trap).

Wonderboy 3 was a straight port, as far as I know.