Hi,

is it possible to have old Console Games or maybe Arcade games on GOG.com? Games that come with an emulator. Or is GOG.com a PC-only site? Would be nice to see some of those games around here, though.

Sega has games on dotemu which are console roms ran in an emulator. For whatever reason though they haven't made a deal with GOG.

I think the Raiden Legacy games are emulated though.

No offense, but we had several threads about this topic and the answer is mostly no.

The chances for games like Mortal Kombat or Final Fantasy 1,4,6,7,and 8 coming here are very low.

woops sorry

Thank you! I had no idea about dotemu. :D

Perhaps, but Mortal Kombat (1-3 collection) IS on Steam, Amazon, and many other retailers.

But than again we need to have Warner Bros. Interactive here to get MK Collection. And hopefully F.E.A.R. and Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth.

Mortal Kombat Kollection uses Games for Windows - LIVE which could make it difficult to get on GOG (since things like online multiplayer probably rely on the Live servers).

I think they had a wishlist forum entry for this. If I had to guess, older console games may become a possibility in about 5 years. Of course then again, with the advent of modern consoles, there were a lot of side by side releases with a PC version. If it never happens, I'm ok with that since I have a lot of old consoles due to the lack of backwards compatibility and I came to GOG to check out a lot of old PC titles I missed out on of which they almost do a perfect job of getting to run on modern systems.

Isn't GFWL shutting down in about 6 months?

yep, I'd like to play my old sega genesis games on pc. I got myself a Firecore, which is basically a handheld (with buttons so basically a gameboy like thing) you can connect with your tv and that comes with 2 optional wireless controllers. So it's kind of a handconsole...held...consoleheld...hand....thing. But it has no saving option. But games like true lies or world of illusion (aaaahhh sweet, sweet memories :)) work with level passwords anyway, so that is not the problem.

Nothing that a good crack won't fix. I gave the MK Collection a try from the Humble Bundle and there was nobody playing online, so the removal of GFWL wouldn't be a loss.

Sega games on GOG would bankrupt me.

What I meant was, he said that the fact that it used GFWL made it impossible to get it on GOG, but if GFWL is shutting down in six months anyway, it shouldn't really matter. In fact, 6 months from now, we could be seeing a lot of ex-GFWL games heading GOG's way.

See, the publishers have a choice. They can either A) remove GFWL from the games and replace it with another DRM scheme B) remove GFWL from the games and sell them DRM free instead, or C) stop selling the games altogether.

Option A is likely to be more expensive than it's worth, while option C means an instant cessation of income for those games. Hopefully, some publishers will opt for B as a middle ground.

You'd like to think that Option A would be more trouble than it's worth, but bureaucracy and company policy always get in the way, which is why companies like WBIE are going to all the trouble of porting all their GFWL stuff to Steam.

While Steam users will no doubt be happy, it probably would have made more sense just to strip out GFWL and be done with it.