MvC2 for current generation consoles (Xbox One/PS4): Sad Status as of Dec 2016

Preppy · December 7, 2016, 4:51am

What I know/have heard:

Supposedly there are a couple bugs preventing the game from being made available via PSN/XBLA back compat
Backbone is gone as of four years ago
The Backbone devs have apparently not been contacted

Edited excerpts from discussion:

Backbone’s gone, though, so there’s nobody left who knows how the inner guts of that port work any more. And, having worked on that one, I can tell you that getting it “perfect” is going to be a piece of work. I could tell you horror stories about that code base that would probably scare Preppy.

If they’re trying to use Backbone’s port, I doubt strongly it could ever happen. I was lead engineer, and I’ve heard nothing. The main guy who wrote the net code that got the peoples panties in a wad works as a designer now, so I suspect he’s out. Backbone itself has been gone for about four years, and had stopped using the engine that MvC2 got ported altogether onto about three years prior to closing, but if the source code exists it’s probably in an archive somewhere in Foundation 9’s vaults, but everyone who knows anything about how it worked works elsewhere now. The biggest collection of them that I know about is at Other Ocean, which isn’t affiliated. You might be able to track one or two of them down at Microsoft (Isaac) or Bungie (David) in your back yard, but other than that I don’t know what to tell you.

So most likely they’d have to start from scratch and go go from there, and unless they got a place with as heavy of fighting game enthusiasts as Backbone was I wouldn’t bet on the net code being something something other than the input-delayed hash that just about every other fighting game not powered by either GGPO or Backbone’s stuff uses. It’s sad, but… it is what it is.

So: all terrible news, but – I think this is more than most of us knew before. Sounds like there’s most likely some bugs that need to be fixed first, and nobody around to fix them and quite possibly no easy way to even get started on fixing them if that was even possible. :sad:

sasquach · December 7, 2016, 10:53am

This makes me cry…

Slangin_Smilez · December 8, 2016, 8:59pm

So injured by this

X_Sword · December 9, 2016, 3:42am

Damn, this almost made me shed a man tear

Marvel 2, please revive it Capcom

Evolution169 · December 9, 2016, 12:44pm

That is shitty news. The least Capcom could do is get the game added to PS3/360 again. There is no reason it has to be left behind since the consoles still have their online functionality.

Preppy · December 12, 2016, 2:21am

I saw my post paraphrased as ‘not happening’ - I wouldn’t consider that definitive. I do have a couple leads currently, let alone people having stuff up their sleeves that us peons simply wouldn’t know about. Asking Capcom and Marvel to make this happen is a good plan - voting for “please make this game available for PSN/XBLA” in places that let you vote is always wise.

ogoboro · May 8, 2017, 11:43pm

Sad news. At this point it seems the best that could happen on PS4 is the PS2 version released as a PS2 classic like they did with KOF 2000. Not a port but emulation. No online and widescreen support though.

ogoboro · May 13, 2017, 8:36am

And Capcom just released RE:Code Veronica on PS4 as a PS2 classic (emulation) eventhough a superior port of the game was made on PS3. They clearly don’t mind releasing inferior versions of their games as long as it works and doesn’t cost money to make

Azure_Murasame · July 13, 2017, 7:44am

This is sad to hear, was hoping for a PC port, if the XBL/PSN versions fell through.