[ALL] Silent Hill HD Collection Ported with Unfinished Code

[padman59]

Silent Hill HD Collection was ported from incomplete code, Konami has revealed.

Developer Hyjinx was forced to work with buggy code because Konami lost the final release version of the game, senior associate producer Tomm Hulett told 1up.

"We got all the source code that Konami had on file - which it turns out wasn't the final release version of the games!

"During debug we didn't just have to deal with the expected 'porting' bugs, but also had to squash some bugs that the original team obviously removed prior to release, but we'd never seen before."

He added: "I think at one point [Silent Hill 3 protagonist] Heather was blue."

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-29-silent-hill-hd-collection-ported-from-unfinished-code

I guess this helps explain why it's buggy as hell.

[Twigg4075]

I remember hearing that the 360 version of that collection was/is leagues better than the PS3 version. But I watched that comparison video in the link and it looks to be the complete opposite. You can actually see the fog on PS3 and the frame rate goes as high as 60 fps but never dips below 30. The 360 version just maintains 30 fps.

360 fanboys strike again?

[padman59]

To be fair, Patrick Klepek mentioned bad control and audio issues during the Quick Look for the PS3 version while this video only compares the frame rates.

[padman59]

And now Konami isn't going to patch the 360 version.

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/konami-not-patching-silent-hill-hd-on-xbox-360-because-well-its-hard/4320/

[Twigg4075]

And now Konami isn't going to patch the 360 version.

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/konami...its-hard/4320/

I thought the PS3 version needed the patch?

[padman59]

The PS3 version got a patch. No idea if it worked though.