PC Shmups and Consoles

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cdawg4949
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PC Shmups and Consoles

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After trying out the Demo for the new Happa PC Shooter (and loving it) as well as trying out perfect cherry blossom, I became curious if there is anyway these programmers could port the games to any consoles?

It seems that since the dremcast is windows CE based in shouldn't be too difficult. Playstation and the others possibly be more difficult? I am no programmer (aside from some weak gamemaker 6 skills :D ) so i have no idea if this is possible.

Obviously there most of these games would be very hard to get distribution for, and may not make that much money, but some are simply genious and I would love to see them on a console.
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Post by Thunder Force »

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes PC shmups do get ported to consoles by 3rd party homebrew authors and distributed online, e.g. Noiz2sa got ported to both Dreamcast and Xbox. PSP is also likely to get some of these in future. (Generally the source code must be available for this kind of thing to eventuate, so shareware titles are out of the question.)
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Post by sethsez »

rRootage also got an Xbox port.
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Post by BrianC »

That freeware Gyruss clone got ported to DC, but last time I checked, it seems to only been ported for PAL region.
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