OTOMEDIUS G platinum hits, another chance at region free?

[schnoo]

I am trying to figure out who/where at Konami I can ask to make this new release region free.

doesn't platinum hits imply a game sold a lot of units?

[Jeneki]

Nifty, I didn't know Otomedius was going into Platinum Hits. Not my favorite game but always good news for those who want it.

While platinum hits has a different cover art, I don't think they remaster the disc. Changing the region settings would require this.

I have no idea if "Platinum hits" really means anything saleswise. It could be just a repackaging at a lower price. Did Homera sell tons on PS2 to get its Best Hits release?

[EPS21]

Yes, it does imply it sold a lot of units, but it definitely isn't grounds to randomly make it region-free. Idolmaster also sold a lot of units, both 360 games have been platinum hits-ed, yet they're still NTSC-J only.

[Jeneki]

Yes, it does imply it sold a lot of units

I'm going to try really hard not to think about what kind of games sell well in Japan, with games like Oneechanbara Vortex in Platinum Hits.

[EPS21]

Haha, take one stroll down the main street their electronics district in Tokyo and you'll find out

[neojma]

Can we stop with the constant "will it be region free" questions? Don't we now have a thread to kick this stuff to so it doesn't clutter the entire board? Almost makes me wish Futari was JPN only so it didn't spur these kinds of questions...

[Damocles]

Cool...now I can pick this up without paying a god-aweful price.

[Castor Krieg]

Yes, it does imply it sold a lot of units, but it definitely isn't grounds to randomly make it region-free. Idolmaster also sold a lot of units, both 360 games have been platinum hits-ed, yet they're still NTSC-J only.

Idolm@ster is region-locked on the grounds of game content: underage girls. Nightmare to bring this to US and FOX News is always looking for good material.

[Elixir]

Platinum doesn't mean a game is suddenly going to be region free. I don't know how people can possibly think this.

Thread should be merged with this thread, honestly.

[EPS21]

Yes, it does imply it sold a lot of units, but it definitely isn't grounds to randomly make it region-free. Idolmaster also sold a lot of units, both 360 games have been platinum hits-ed, yet they're still NTSC-J only.

Idolm@ster is region-locked on the grounds of game content: underage girls. Nightmare to bring this to US and FOX News is always looking for good material.

The games don't have any 18+ material in them, they're perfectly legitimate uh, "idol-raising simulators." A localization of it would be beyond frightening though, especially if they changed the songs. Way too much translating/VA'ing to do for the very few sales it'd get in the west anyways.

Otomedius is more sexually explicit than im@s, but it might actually do OK here since Gradius is somewhat known, just adding tits to the equation.

[yyr]

Historically, NO "greatest hits/best/platinum hits/etc" re-release--which is just the same game in different packaging--has EVER changed the region code, on any system, for any game. At least, I'm 99% certain of this.

There's a lot of writing on this page, but a simple "no" probably would have been adequate...

[nZero]

Region Locking Discussion

Otomedius thread in which news about a platinum hits re-release should be posted